Our Calling

“But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this iscommendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered foryou, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps” (1 Peter2:20-21).

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

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 shouldfollow in His steps. We are to imitate Jesus in His goodness, sufferings, andpatience.

The book In His Steps was written more than 100 yearsago. It is a novel about a group of people who wanted to follow Jesus by askingthe question, “What would Jesus do?” The fallacy in the book is that it tookimagination 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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