Life for a believer is a completely different package. We live by standards that are different from that of the world, run a different race, and find ecstasy only in God. He alone becomes our supreme joy; and His will our highest aim. The gift of life is a privilege to know Him and to serve His purposes. If life is God’s gift, his call to know Him is the miracle of miracles.  The most supernatural thing that one will get to hear in a lifetime is God’s call.  So mysterious is the call that one can go bizarrely berserk until the Lord helps the individual look at the bigger picture. This is a feeble attempt to beckon you to look at the bigger picture.

Strange - His Voice

God getting man’s attention is as surprising as everything else that follows. The way God reaches out to a man is too good to sometimes even believe it. Life is too short to guess His ways. They are simple and sublime, stunning and soothing, apprehensive and comprehensive – all at the same time.  Check out the way God spoke to all His people in the Bible – simply incredible. Moses – from the burning bush, the most unexpected medium; Ezekiel – in Babylon, the last place an Israelite could expect God to show Himself (definitely not in a pagan land). Peter – on the sea side, while catching fish; Paul – on the road side, while trying to kill people. The INDESCRIBABLE – becoming the inevitable in his approach. Each time God met an individual they were shocked to believe, but the response has been destiny changing. Each time God’s voice was heard, it had the sense of strange-ness without betraying the simplicity. Today, it’s impossible for some to believe that God can directly speak to us daily through the Bible – the Word of God. We believe He can give us a promise from His Word, or can grant us a breakthrough, or even give us a message to preach. But can He speak to us personally? Can He speak as clearly as hearing someone across the room? Can He speak like a friend? For some it is difficult to believe. However, for those who want to hear Him, He still does speak!

Stranger – His Choice

Crazy as it may sound, God likes to surprise the world by showing them that His foolishness is wiser than their wisdom. Look at his choices. Each choice was STRANGER than the other. God’s pick for His mission has always been either the simple or the simplest. Only an ALL- Wise, ALL- Powerful God could choose people such as these and still accomplish great things. None could guess that God would prepare a shepherd turned Son-of-Pharaoh, in the Mediterranean peninsula for 40 years to make him the solo leader of a national immigration – Moses. A slave who lost all his luck and was betrayed by every opportunity would never have thought that he would become the savior of the then starving world – Joseph. God’s choice to knock down the heavy weight champion of his time was “THE KEEPER OF A FEW SHEEP” (as called by his own brother) – David. A fear-prone, low self esteem guy was God’s best choice to fight the enemy, whose cavalry was probably a hundred times bigger than his entire group – Gideon. Our God is the same yesterday, today and forever. His choices are still the same – He still picks the most unpredictably weak people. It doesn’t matter even if it’s YOU!

Strangest – His Mission- Submission

With His strange choices the Lord gets to do the strangest things. His mission for us is as grand as His choice.  His mission for all His Missionaries (both in the OT and in the NT and in Today’s World) is just one thing – SUBMISSION! Be it Moses who led a Nation out of slavery or Paul who led the Gentiles into Salvation – Their Mission was to first Submit to the Lord. In fact, before any commission comes submission. Many a times we ask this one question with different expressions – “What is God’s will for my life? What’s the purpose of my life?” The answer is His Mission. In other words– SUBMISSION! Anything apart from submission is not His will. Before we can submit to him, He gave us Himself completely! Now, before He can show us His will – we must surrender ours. Before He can call us for his work – we must commit ourselves.

Think about this! If God didn’t choose you – you wouldn’t be living to read this. But because He did, surrender to His voice, since YOU are His choice.