I Am not of the heavens, for these cannot hold Me. I Am over all creation, holding its being and sustaining all law and time. You are of My creation, given life by My holy breath that you would know I have called you. Rise up to this. There is no greater summons within the days of your breath. Life and love flow forth to carry those willing, to a place unknown to man alone. By My Spirit you sense the eternal. Your life is more. Faith is the way, not the swaying faith of the lukewarm, but the faith that leads to sacrifice for He who has sacrificed for all who accept His Way. Reaching to the created within creation, the Christ promised from ancient days. Through this Name your soul awakes to a God beyond all expectation, a life that begins only now, but carries on in the greater realm, beyond death, to what is to come. Contemplate who you are. Seek to know He whom you serve. In worship you find your place, and in that place – My joy, peace and power, that you would live a life of the greater calling. I AM mighty God, and I call you up. Arise. In faith, in the Name of Jesus, by His voice I call, “ARISE!”
Luke 7:14-15 (ESV) – Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.
John 3:16-17 (ESV) – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”
1 Cor 2:9-13 (ESV) – But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
Bottom Line: We may feel like we are called to our profession, or called to fatherhood or motherhood. We may even feel that we are called to a ministry. But no matter how strong those calls are, we are reminded today that there is no greater call on our lives than to the Creator himself and His eternity to come. He calls us through Jesus, Emmanuel, “God with us” – inside His grand creation. You were given the breath of life just so you could answer that call. He has loved you from His inception of you. He has entered His creation to make a way for you. Awake, look to heaven, and arise to His call.
