Our Calling

“But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is
commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for
you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps” (1 Peter
2:20-21).

Do you have a calling? Yes! What is it? To this you are
called:

Do good.

Suffer for it.

Take it patiently.

If we do good, suffer for it, and take it impatiently,
this is not commendable before God. Two out of three is not good enough.

Christ, in His suffering, left us an example that we should
follow in His steps. We are to imitate Jesus in His goodness, sufferings, and
patience.

The book In His Steps was written more than 100 years
ago. It is a novel about a group of people who wanted to follow Jesus by asking
the question, “What would Jesus do?” The fallacy in the book is that it took
imagination to come up with the answer. The answer is in the text—do good,
suffer for it, and take it patiently. We already know what Jesus would do.
He has already done it. He is our example, and His action is our calling.

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