Reporting for Duty

Duty

Rank imposes obligation.

Motto

Deut 7:6
"For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. NASU

What is your standing before God my Christian brother, or sister? As far as I can tell from His Word, we are pretty well at the top. Didn’t He send His only Son to die for us, and to redeem us from our fallen and useless state? Yes, He did, and that requires a response from us, something besides a light hearted acknowledgement. It requires, and rightly so, a conviction and life served in faithful duty to our Lord, and Savior.

Thomas ã Kempis a German Monk, Mystic, and Religious Writer who lived from 1379-1471, said this of Duty, “Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.” You see God has decided who we are, but we also must decide who and what we are to be. Who are you and what are you right now, and to whom do you hold allegiance? We have a duty as Christians to wake up every day and go to the frontlines at our jobs, shops, factories and homes, and to serve God faithfully in those places, to exemplify His Holiness.

Mark Twain that great American Humorist, and Writer, says this of duty, “Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.” You see many have gotten in the habit of only doing what “they” want to do, and actually we are all pretty spoiled in this area. But some of the greatest things that you and I have learned were not learned in doing what we wanted to do, but in what we had to do. Duty called, we experienced, and we learned and we faithfully responded to the call, for duty cannot exist without faith.

We cannot dodge those responsibilities that God has given us as His children, what we do not do today, will still be there for us in the morning. It is as Joseph Newton said, “A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.” It is as I have heard many times, and it is so true. We owed a debt we could not pay, Jesus paid a debt He did not owe, and to this what is our response? Jesus paid it all, ALL to Him, I owe…God Bless.

Pastor William