A Deeper Call Demands a Deeper Consecration

“Now the Lord said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy
kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee”
(Gen. 12:1). Almighty God called Abram to go on with Him. God promised
to make of Abram a great nation. In order for that to actually be realized,
Abram had to obey the Lord. He had to move on as God instructed him.
Abram had to “get out of thy country” and “from thy kindred”, etc., and go
“unto a land that I will shew thee.”

In God’s way, a deeper call demands a deeper consecration. God spoke to
His servant Joshua saying, “…that ye may know the way by which ye must
go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore. And Joshua said unto the
people, Sanctify yourselves: for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among
you”. Whatever the Lord is calling us to, whatever is next for us in Christ,
will necessitate a deeper, fuller consecration to the Lord from us. The Lord
calls us, makes wonderful promises to us, equips us, but we (as His
redeemed) must believe Him and obey Him. God is surely calling each of
His children to increasingly more in Christ. For us to obtain these greater
blessings, we must be more separated unto the Lord and from the things of
this world. “And I heard another voice from Heaven saying, Come out of
her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not
of her plaques” (Rev. 18:4).

Henry Blackaby writes, “You cannot stay where you are and go with God”.
If any man will truly follow Jesus, he must take up his cross and follow. We,
like Abram, must leave certain things and cleave to the Lord as He
requires. By faith, Abraham did follow the Lord and did receive the things
God had promised. Don’t let anything keep you from fully following the
Lord. It will be worth it all! Paul states in Philippians chapter 3, “…this one
thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth
unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of
the high calling of God in Christ Jesus”. Let us go on with Jesus.
In Christ, Randy Currier