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KEY TEXT: Matthew 20:16 (NKJV) – “So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.”

Matthew 20:16 says that many are called. This phrase means that everyone is called. The question is, everyone is called to do what or to be what?

God Calls Everyone To Be a Leader and To Be the Best

Deuteronomy 28:13 (KJV) – “And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them.”

God has created everyone to be a leader in their purpose. God wants you to be the best. He wants you to be the head and not the tail. He wants you to be above only. We are created in His image (Genesis 1:27), and He wants us to reflect that image by being the best we can be in our purpose or calling. When we talk about being the best, we think about competition. We think about defeating someone else. The spirit of competition or win-lose is not Godly because your win depends on another person’s downfall. Competition also comes with pride, and anything of pride is a sin. God desires everyone to be the best in their respective work.

“To every man is given “his work” (Mark 13:34), the work for which his capabilities adapt him, the work which will result in greatest good to himself and to his fellow men, and in greatest honor to God.” – Education, Page 138.1, Ellen G. White.

“Thus our business or calling is a part of God’s great plan, and, so long as it is conducted in accordance with His will, He Himself is responsible for the results. “Laborers together with God” (1 Corinthians 3:9), our part is faithful compliance with His directions. Thus there is no place for anxious care. Diligence, fidelity, caretaking, thrift, and discretion are called for. Every faculty is to be exercised to its highest capacity. But the dependence will be, not on the successful outcome of our efforts, but on the promise of God. The word that fed Israel in the desert, and sustained Elijah through the time of famine, has the same power today. “Be not therefore anxious (R.V.), saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? … Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:31-33.” – Education, Page 138.2, Ellen G. White

There is no person born who does not have a unique attribute. God has called some as preachers, and He desires them to be the best preachers according to the ability He has bestowed upon them. Some preachers can compose music; God desires them to use that skill to preach the gospel. Some preachers have a remarkable ability to discern profound truths in the Bible. God desires them to use that ability in the best possible way. Some are incredibly passionate about teaching specific topics in the Bible, for example, family life, stewardship, leadership, the second coming of Jesus, the Sabbath, etc. God desires them to make maximum use of their various passions.

For example, Pastor Elizabeth Mokoro is most passionate about family life. Therefore, she preaches family life. John C. Maxwell is most passionate about leadership. Therefore, he teaches leadership lessons, writes books on the same topic, and coaches various leaders worldwide. Pastor Randy Skeete portrays excellent love for the Bible. He has memorized the Bible, and he emphasizes the power that God’s Word has. Therefore, if you listen to him, you will probably fall in love with the Bible.

The Bible writers wrote on various topics, using various styles and themes, at various times but having one message. This massive pool of diversity was not meant to bring confusion and uncertainty but to appeal to various minds with the single aim of bringing them closer to God.

People may be called to similar careers but with different purposes and jobs. Two people may study civil engineering, but one specializes in building roads while the other specializes in building houses. Four people may study political science; one ends up being a political strategist, the other a politician, the other a teacher in political science, and the other an article writer in political science.

Not all who study law end up being employed in a law firm. Some end up being judges and magistrates, while some entrepreneurs have their law firms or legal consultancy firms. You don’t have to know how to code to work in the technology industry. You can specialize in design and be the best User Interface/User Experience designer. You can open a technology blog and be a technology writer as well.

God wants you to be the best in whatever field you venture into. When you fail to walk according to your purpose or do things mediocrely, you rob the world of your unique ability. Not only are you robbing the world, but you are also robbing yourself. Ecclesiastes 9:10 (KJV) – “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.” Make maximum use of your abilities.

One main reason why many people rarely achieve the level of greatness that God intends them to achieve is that they do not know their purpose. Therefore, they spend their lifetime walking in the wrong direction. Many Christians are doing jobs they don’t like to make money, even though the Bible says labor is not to be rich (Proverbs 23:4). Some do those jobs to get money for instant gratification to make quick fixes like paying bills. Therefore, they usually do the bare minimum and never stretch beyond to do more.

Sometimes their pay is barely sufficient to meet basic needs. As a result, many get into loans so that they can afford the life they want to live. This enslaves them because they are always waiting for payday so that they can pay their bills and loans. They retire when they reach sixty years, while some retire at seventy but still have not made as much money as they desired. Unfortunately, they end up frustrated with no money.

Pursuing your purpose with passion gives you satisfaction. Even when you fail to make money from it, you feel happy and at peace. Various people put in a lot of hard work and get very little pay because when you make money your only goal while working, chances are high you will not make much of it.

If Christiano Ronaldo or Messi neglected practicing football and used their full time to work as waiters in restaurants, they would not have made the money they make in one year in their whole lifetime as restaurant workers. If Apostle Paul had neglected writing all those books of the Bible and chosen to be a full-time tent maker to make money, he would not have the tremendous impact he had that flows from generation to generation.

God wants you to be great. That is why He has given you a unique purpose and unique abilities. He created man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (Genesis 2:7). This creation detail shows that He wants us to be great but humble. We would all be great if we followed His direction and obeyed Him. Our unique abilities and purposes are given to us by God. We shall be leaders in our area of calling if we use them to the glory of God.

God Calls Everyone to be Blessed

Deuteronomy 28:1-2 (KJV) – “¹ And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: ² And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.”

Everything was blessed when God created the world, including Adam and Eve (human beings). Sin brought a curse to the world. By the grace of God, man was blessed to be created in God’s image. However, sin tainted that image. Sin, which means doing anything contrary to God’s Word, brought diseases, calamities, uncomfortableness, sadness, anger, war, and poverty, among many other terrible things.

God desired that man should eat from the Tree of Life and not from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil which were both in the middle of the garden. Man did not do that. Instead, he ate from the tree that God commanded him not to. Man brought a curse on himself by his own choices. We often bring curses to our lives by making choices that are not in accordance with God’s commandments.

God Himself wrote the Ten Commandments and gave us. The Ten Commandments are the ten rules of blessings. Each commandment carries a blessing. Nothing good you do from a good motive, no matter how small, will go unblessed. God can give you great rewards just for telling someone. “God bless you” or “God loves you.” God can give you tremendous blessings from avoiding one ‘small’ sin.

Deuteronomy 28:1-2 tells us that the way to get blessed is to obey God’s voice diligently. Verse 2 tells us that the blessings we receive from God will overtake us. God does not want to give you blessings you can easily carry; He desires to give you more than you can carry. That is why Malachi 3:10 tells us that when one returns a tithe, God will pour a blessing that they will not have enough room to receive it.

It is your choice to choose between blessings and curses (Deuteronomy 30:19). It was Adam’s choice to choose between the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It is your choice to choose between obeying and disobeying God. It is your choice to choose whether you return the tithe or not.

Genesis 2:1-3 (KJV) – “¹ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. ² And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. ³ And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.”

Exodus 20:8-11 (KJV) – “⁸ Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. ⁹ Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: ¹⁰ But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: ¹¹ For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.”

God blessed the seventh day and made it a Sabbath for man (Mark 2:27), meaning the Sabbath was meant to benefit man. The Sabbath is a blessed institution. Keeping it holy, as God has said, will make you a blessed person. Jesus performed more and greater miracles on the Sabbath than on any other day.

Jesus healed Simon Peter’s mother-in-law on the Sabbath (Mark 1:29-31). Jesus healed a man with a withered hand on the Sabbath (Mark 3:1-6). He healed a man who was born blind on the Sabbath (John 9:1-16). Christ healed a woman crippled for eighteen years on the Sabbath (Luke 13:10-17). He healed a man with dropsy on the Sabbath (Luke 14:1-6). He drove out an evil spirit from someone on the Sabbath (Mark 1:21-28). He healed a lame man by the pool of Bethesda who had an infirmity for thirty-eight years on the Sabbath (John 5:1-18). God wants you to keep the Sabbath because He wants you to get the blessings of the Sabbath. However, few get those blessings because few keep the Sabbath as God says.

God Calls Everyone to be Materially Rich

Proverbs 10:22 (KJV) – “The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and He addeth no sorrow with it.”

God’s blessing makes a person rich in all areas of life. It makes one spiritually rich, socially rich, healthy, and materially prosperous. God desires that everyone should have abundance in everything, thus the Bible is widely accessible. Heaven is a place of abundance in that the streets we will step on are made of pure gold. The foundations of the city’s walls are not made of common stones like the ones on earth; they are made of twelve gemstones (Revelation 21:19-20).

When Jesus was teaching His disciple’s how to pray, He said in Matthew 6:10 (KJV) – “Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” There is no poverty or scarcity in heaven. Therefore, God desires that there should be no poverty or scarcity on earth.

Scarcity is not God’s original intention. Scarcity was brought by sin. After Adam and Eve sinned, they were cast out of the Garden of Eden, where there was abundance, and subjected to a life of toil.

Genesis 3:17-19 (KJV) – “¹⁷ And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; ¹⁸ Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; ¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”

Working hard and earning little was brought by sin. However, God promises that we shall have plenty if we obey His commandments. Abraham was materially prosperous, Isaac was rich, Jacob was rich, Solomon was wealthy, and Job was wealthy.

Luke 19:10 (KJV) – “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Jesus came to seek and save that which was lost. One thing that was lost was painless labor. Jesus came to restore that. Another thing that was lost was abundant living. Jesus came to restore that too. The work of redemption aims to make everyone rich in everything.

2 Corinthians 8:9 (KJV) – “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.” Jesus was made poor so that we can be rich because His will is for us to be rich.

Deuteronomy 28:4 (KJV) – “Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.”

Deuteronomy 28:11 (KJV) – “And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.”

Many Christians are misinformed and are made to believe that material riches come from the Devil and that a Christian should be materially poor while spiritually rich. Deuteronomy 28 does not mention spiritual blessings only. Spiritual blessings are mentioned in Deuteronomy 28:9. Social blessings are mentioned in Deuteronomy 28:7. Material blessings are mentioned in Deuteronomy 28:4, 5, 11, and 12.

Myles Munroe says that poverty is not a lack of resources but a lack of creativity. Isaiah 55:8-9 says that God’s thoughts and ways are as high as heaven is from the earth. The closer we get to God, the more we reflect His image and the more our minds get elevated to meet the mind of the Creator. An elevated mind will have the ability to come up with uniquely creative ideas that can generate a vast amount of wealth. The more you study and obey God’s Word, the higher your thoughts/your mind becomes. The higher your mind becomes, the greater your memory, reasoning ability, and creativity.

Talking about the mental value of Bible study, Ellen G. White writes, “In searching out the various parts and studying their relationship, the highest faculties of the human mind are called into intense activity. No one can engage in such study without developing mental power.” – Education Page 124.1.

“And not alone in searching out truth and bringing it together does the mental value of Bible study consist. It consists also in the effort required to grasp the themes presented. The mind occupied with commonplace matters only, becomes dwarfed and enfeebled. If never tasked to comprehend grand and far-reaching truths, it after a time loses the power of growth. As a safeguard against this degeneracy, and a stimulus to development, nothing else can equal the study of God’s Word. As a means of intellectual training, the Bible is more effective than any other book, or all other books combined. The greatness of its themes, the dignified simplicity of its utterances, the beauty of its imagery, quicken and uplift the thoughts as nothing else can. No other study can impart such mental power as does the effort to grasp the stupendous truths of revelation. The mind thus brought in contact with the thoughts of the Infinite cannot but expand and strengthen.” – Education, Page 124.2, Ellen G. White.

“And even greater is the power of the Bible in the development of the spiritual nature. Man, created for fellowship with God, can only in such fellowship find his real life and development. Created to find in God his highest joy, he can find in nothing else that which can quiet the cravings of the heart, can satisfy the hunger and thirst of the soul. He who with sincere and teachable spirit studies God’s Word, seeking to comprehend its truths, will be brought in touch with its Author; and, except by his own choice, there is no limit to the possibilities of his development.” – Education, Page 124.3, Ellen G. White.

Deuteronomy 28:5 (KJV) – “Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.”

A basket and a store are both storage facilities, whereby a basket has a smaller storage space than a store. A basket is portable while a store is not. You can carry your wallet, but you cannot carry the whole bank. Now God is saying if you obey His commandments, whatever you carry in your hand will be blessed, and whatever you have in your large storage space will also be blessed. You will have money in your pocket (small storage space/basket) and money in your bank account (large storage space/store). Some people are rich in assets but not in cash, while others have a lot of cash but no assets. God says, “Blessed shall be thy basket and store.” You will be rich in cash and rich in assets as well. The gospel is meant to make you prosperous in all areas of your life. When you follow Biblical principles in business, your business will succeed greatly.

“There is no branch of legitimate business for which the Bible does not afford an essential preparation. Its principles of diligence, honesty, thrift, temperance, and purity are the secret of true success. These principles, as set forth in the book of Proverbs, constitute a treasury of practical wisdom. Where can the merchant, the artisan, the director of men in any department of business, find better maxims for himself or for his employees than are found in these words of the wise man: “Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.” Proverbs 22:29.” – Education Page 135, Ellen G. White.

Malachi 3:10-11 (KJV) – “¹⁰ Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. ¹¹ And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.”

Malachi 3:10 tells us that when we bring our tithe to God, He will give us more blessings than what we had before. Not only will He give us more, but He will give us blessings in abundance that there won’t be enough room to receive. These blessings include material blessings. In Malachi 3:11, God promises that He will protect your property from being harmed by the enemy. One blessing of returning tithe is that it protects our material goods. It also enables them to grow and flourish.

Psalm 112:1 (KJV) – “Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord that delighteth greatly in His commandments.”

God calls the person who fears Him and finds joy in His commandments blessed. He gives him the following promise in verse 3:

Psalm 112:3 (KJV) – “Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth forever.”

Obedience to God brings wealth. God calls many to be wealthy, but few choose to obey Him. Therefore, they do not experience the full blessings that God has in store for them.

“With these principles are bound up the well-being of society, of both secular and religious associations. They give security to property and life. For all that makes confidence and cooperation possible, the world is indebted to the law of God as given in His Word and as still traced in lines often obscure and well-nigh obliterated in human hearts. The psalmist’s words, “The law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of shekels of gold and silver” (Psalm 119:72), state an absolute truth and one that is recognized in the business world. Even in this age of passion for getting money, when competition is sharp and methods often are unscrupulous, it is still widely acknowledged that, for a young person starting in life, integrity, diligence, temperance, purity, and thrift constitute better capital than any amount of mere money.” – True Education, Page 83.1, Ellen G. White.

God Calls Everyone To Be a Lender and not a Borrower

Deuteronomy 28:12 (KJV) – “The Lord shall open unto thee His good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in His season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.”

Borrowing humiliates the one who is borrowing. It is not God’s will for you to borrow. It is God’s will for you to lend. Whatever pain we face, God feels it more than we feel it. Therefore, when we face shame, God feels it more than we feel it. God does not desire that His children should be embarrassed. Borrowing and begging bring embarrassment because it puts you in a lower position than whoever you borrow from. Therefore, bringing shame to the kingdom of God.

God allows us to borrow, but it is not His original will that we should borrow. He gave us dominion over everything on earth (Genesis 1:28). The same way, God allows us to eat meat, but it is not His original will to eat it. When creating Adam and Eve, He gave them a diet that did not consist of meat (Genesis 1:29). God allowed meat years after sin entered the world.

Proverbs 22:7 (KJV) – “The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.”

Borrowing enslaves you, and God has not called us to be enslaved. He has made us free because the work of salvation was meant to set the captives free (Isaiah 61:1). When giving the Ten Commandments to the Israelites, He reminded them that they were once enslaved people in the land of Egypt. He is the one who freed them (Exodus 20:2). The commandments were rules to maintain the freedom they had. The lack of keeping them would take them back to slavery.

Exodus 20:17 (KJV) – “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”

The tenth commandment tells us not to covet. Many people have gotten into debt because of covetousness. You see your neighbor with a good car, covet it, and so you borrow a loan to buy a car. If you had obeyed God’s commandments, you would not have gotten into debt and you would be free. Some third-world countries are enslaved and controlled by developed nations because of borrowing.

Loans come easily, but paying them is usually difficult, especially if you did not use them in a profitable activity. Many are enslaved in jobs they don’t like because they want to repay a loan. Secondly, debt enslaves you whereby one debt leads to the borrowing of another. Therefore, debt keeps on accumulating. Leave it alone if you can’t afford something, and it’s not a basic need. It may not be God’s will that you should have that particular thing in that season. Therefore, do not force what is not God’s will.

“Words to One Who Lived Beyond His Income—You ought not to allow yourself to become financially embarrassed, for the fact that you are in debt weakens your faith and tends to discourage you; and even the thought of it makes you nearly wild. You need to cut down your expenses and strive to supply this deficiency in your character. You can and should make determined efforts to bring under control your disposition to spend means beyond your income.” – The Adventist Home, Page 393.1, Ellen G. White.

“Counsel to One in Debt—Be determined never to incur another debt. Deny yourself a thousand things rather than run in debt. This has been the curse of your life, getting into debt. Avoid it as you would the smallpox.” – The Adventist Home, Page 393.4, Ellen G. White.

“Make a solemn covenant with God that by His blessing you will pay your debts and then owe no man anything if you live on porridge and bread. It is so easy in preparing your table to throw out of your pocket twenty-five cents for extras. Take care of the pennies, and the dollars will take care of themselves. It is the mites here and the mites there that are spent for this, that, and the other that soon run up into dollars. Deny self at least while you are walled in with debts…. Do not falter, be discouraged, or turn back. Deny your taste, deny the indulgence of appetite, save your pence, and pay your debts. Work them off as fast as possible. When you can stand forth a free man again, owing no man anything, you will have achieved a great victory.”- The Adventist Home, Page 393.5, Ellen G. White.

God Calls Everyone to have a Successful Family and Generation

Deuteronomy 28:4 (KJV) – “Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body.”

Deuteronomy 28:11 (KJV) – “And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body.”

One of the fruits of a person’s body is the children. Parents and children form a family. God is the Creator of families, and He blessed the family institution right from the beginning. God wants to give more blessings to the family, but He gives them a condition to obey His commandments. It greatly benefits society when the family is blessed because strong families make strong societies. The great harm we face in society is primarily due to broken families. Parental influence on children is vital in shaping their character, especially if they are below nine. Children tend to imitate the habits of their parents because their parents are the first people they see.

If fellowship is treasured and done consistently at home, children will likely grow to cherish the Word of God. As adults, they will most likely cultivate the same lifestyle in their various homes because worship was part of them as they were growing up. If the parents diligently study and obey God’s Word to the letter, they will do great good to their children as they will be leading by example.

A Godly family is seen not only through prayer and Bible study sessions at home but also in the general lifestyle. Some Christian homes worship God but cherish habits such as gossiping, quarreling, and lacking respect among family members. It will impact your children less if you advise them to live a Christian life and go to church while they hear you gossip.

In many Christian homes, it is not uncommon to hear insults or words of discouragement. Reading to your children the sixth commandment, “Thou shalt not kill. (Exodus 20:13)” will be of little impact because, as a parent, you constantly kill your family members spiritually and mentally through perpetual discouragements. Many problems in Christian families would be solved if parents walked the talk.

“Parents to Understand Their Responsibility — The father and the mother should be the first teachers of their children.” – Child Guidance, Page 21.1, Ellen G. White.

“Fathers and mothers need to understand their responsibility. The world is full of snares for the feet of the young. Multitudes are attracted by a life of selfish and sensual pleasure. They cannot discern the hidden dangers or the fearful ending of the path that seems to them the way of happiness. Through the indulgence of appetite and passion, their energies are wasted, and millions are ruined for this world and for the world to come. Parents should remember that their children must encounter these temptations. Even before the birth of the child, the preparation should begin that will enable it to fight successfully the battle against evil.” – Child Guidance, Page 21.2, Ellen G. White.

Genesis 18:19 (KJV) – “For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which He hath spoken of him.”

God knew that Abraham would command his household to keep His commandments, and as a result, his household would be blessed. He also knew that Abraham would lead his household by example. Abraham’s family was blessed, and his generations were blessed as well. God will do the same to everybody if they obey His commandments.

Psalm 112:1-2 (KJV) – “¹ Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in His commandments. ² His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.”

God Calls Everyone To Be Blessed in This Current World

Deuteronomy 28:1 (KJV) – “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth.”

People seldom obey God because they think obedience to God is only relevant to enter the kingdom of heaven, and since it will take God such a long time to come back, they can do what they want in the meantime. Some ‘young’ people assume they have a long life and will give their lives to Christ once they grow old. Most people don’t know that God’s commandments are also meant to give us blessings here on earth.

Deuteronomy 28:1 ends by saying, “God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth.” God wants to bless us while we are still on earth. Various Biblical heroes of faith will inherit eternal life even though most are dead now. These heroes if we read their stories, the majority of them were blessed while they were still on Earth.

God intends that we acquire His blessings now and that His blessings flow from now to eternity. Life on earth may not seem fully blessed for a genuine Christian because we live in a dilapidated world surrounded by sinners. Therefore, one hundred percent comfort is not guaranteed. However, if you obey God earnestly, you will prevent yourself from encountering almost all the problems. A lot of profit will also be realized when one walks the narrow way.

Mark 10:29-30 (KJV) – “²⁹ And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, ³⁰ But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.”

Mark 10:29-30 tells us that we will lose nothing when we give our all to Christ. It says that we will receive a hundredfold now in this time and the world to come eternal life. God restored Job all that He had lost with a double measure while still alive on earth. Job is now dead, but He will probably inherit eternal life when Jesus returns the second time. God wants to bless you in this life so you can be a living testimony to the world. We are the light of the world (Matthew 5:14). Our light should reflect not only in the words we preach but in the quality of our lives.

One way to show the world that the character which we advocate works is through the blessings we possess. People need to see the blessings of returning a tithe in the lives of those who faithfully return a tithe. They need to see the blessings of keeping the Sabbath in the lives of those who faithfully keep the Sabbath. They need to see the blessings of having faith in the lives of those who show faith in God. They need to see the blessings of total obedience to God in the lives of those who obey the commandments of God. God wants to bless us to lead more people to Him. Therefore, we shall get some of God’s blessings now, but most of them when Jesus returns to take us home. This is because our lives now are short compared to eternal life that has no end.

Isaiah 58:13-14 (KJV) – “¹³ If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: ¹⁴ Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”

If we keep the Sabbath day holy and delight in it as well as all other Ten Commandments, God shall cause us to ride upon the high places of the earth. Obedience to God assures you of blessings in this world and the new world.

God Calls Everyone to Inherit Eternal Life

John 3:16 (KJV) – “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

“The gift of Christ to the world was beyond computation, and no power could compete with God by giving a gift that would bear any comparison to the value of heaven’s best treasure. The greatness of this gift was to furnish men with a theme of thanksgiving and praise that would last through this time and through eternity. Having given His all in Christ, God lays claim to the heart, mind, soul, and strength of man. Looking upon the treasure which God has provided in the full and complete gift of Christ, we can exclaim: “Herein is love!” – Our High Calling, Page 18.5, Ellen G. White.

“For God so loved the world. (John 3:16)” means that God loves everybody. He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to come and die for everyone (many are called). This means that God calls everyone to salvation. However, not everyone will respond to the call of salvation because of hard-heartedness.

During the time of Noah, God instructed Noah to make an ark that would fit everybody in the world at that time. However, most of the world’s population chose not to believe in God. Therefore, God ended up saving Noah and his family alone. Only Lot was saved in the whole city during the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. In this present time, few people believe in God, and few have fully surrendered their lives to God. Those few who will be found worthy will be the chosen few. However, none will say that God did not give them a chance to get saved.

Matthew 20:16 (NKJV) – “For many are called, but few chosen.”

GOD BLESS YOU!

Prayer

Dear God, thank You for calling us to be leaders, to be blessed, to have successful families, to be materially rich, to be lenders, to be blessed in this current world and to inherit eternal life. Help us to obey Your divine call and to be among the chosen ones. In Jesus name, Amen.

Activity

Step 1: Reflect

Find a quiet place. Pray, then answer the following in a notebook or journal:

• What is one talent or passion I know God has given me?
• Am I using it to glorify Him, or am I burying it?
• Is there anything God has been calling me to do that I keep postponing or ignoring?

Step 2: Act Today (Daily Step)

Choose one small action that aligns with your God-given purpose. For example:

• If you’re called to teach: share a truth from the Bible with someone today.
• If you’re called to write: draft a short blog, post, or journal entry.
• If you’re called to lead: help guide someone or organize something well today.

Step 3: Share this message with someone.

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