Ellul: the calling

Monday, August 9, 2021
    Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers’ Union, 1921
Meditation:
    The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.”
    —Genesis 12:1 (NIV)
Quotation:
    When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.
    ... Jacques Ellul (1912-1994), The Judgment of Jonah, tr. Geoffrey W. Bromiley, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1971, p. 23 (see the book)
    See also Gen. 12:1; Amos 7:14-15; Jonah 1:2; 2 Tim. 1:8-9
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, make me know my calling, that I may do it. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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