Dating or Marriage?

Having a call on your life is more then a title, a dream, or a hope.

It is a responsibility. A responsibility that has a high price.

When the Lord shows us the dreams he has planted in us, we are awed,

hopeful and elated to be who God has called us to be. These dreams

never fade,no rather they continually bubble up even on our worst days.

But as the years pass and God begins doing a great work in us.

It’s then when we need to choose to grow and be pruned or live a

mediocre life. Our call is a commitment, a marriage per say

where we are devoted to this

in sickness and in health… to death do us part.

A call is not some glorious rendezvous that we pick up

when we are feeling well and place down when we are down

in the dumps. Just like being married,

it is a life long commitment that regardless of the circumstances,

we are to stay faithful to the end.Just as young couples are all starry-eyed

experiencing the precious young love,

the romantic dates, the laughter and fun this is intended for

a season then it’s time to experience the reality

of what a marriage is really like. The couple who once used to

laugh and play now has to get serious about the commitments to

each other, to the mortgage, jobs,

children and the day to day routines.

Those beautiful times don’t end of course, but growing together

in the good times and bad are experienced more and more, so is it like

with the call on your life.In the beginning God is wooing you showing

you His marvelous love, who He is and what

He can do but as years pass He wants you to take some

responsibility, He is putting the

ball in your court to see what you do with what he has given you.

Then the reality check comes, we have to decide:

Are we just dating God or are we married to Him?