{"id":4146,"date":"2009-03-08T00:43:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T04:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=33"},"modified":"2009-03-08T00:43:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T04:43:44","slug":"the-vocation-of-the-natural-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/03\/08\/the-vocation-of-the-natural-life\/","title":{"rendered":"THE VOCATION OF THE NATURAL LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But when it pleased God &#8230; to reveal His Son in me &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>     &#8212; Galatians 1:15-16<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The call of God is not a call to any particular service; my<br \/>\ninterpretation of it may be because contact with the nature of God<br \/>\nhas made me realize what I would like to do for Him. The call of God<br \/>\nis essentially expressive of His nature; service is the outcome of<br \/>\nwhat is fitted to my nature. The vocation of the natural life is<br \/>\nstated by the apostle Paul &#8211; &#8220;When it pleased God to reveal His Son<br \/>\nin me that I might preach Him&#8221; (i.e., sacramentally express ) &#8220;among<br \/>\nthe Gentiles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Service is the overflow of superabounding devotion; but, profoundly<br \/>\nspeaking, there is no call to that, it is my own little actual bit<br \/>\nand is the echo of my identification with the nature of God. Service<br \/>\nis the natural part of my life. God gets me into a relationship with<br \/>\nHimself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer<br \/>\nlove for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate<br \/>\nlove-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God. Service is<br \/>\nexpressive of that which is fitted to my nature: God&#8217;s call is<br \/>\nexpressive of His nature; consequently when I receive His nature and<br \/>\nhear His call, the voice of the Divine nature sounds in both and the<br \/>\ntwo work together. The Son of God reveals Himself in me, and I serve<br \/>\nHim in the ordinary ways of life out of devotion to Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But when it pleased God &#8230; to reveal His Son in me &#8230; &#8212; Galatians 1:15-16 The call of God is not a call to any particular service; my interpretation of it may be because contact with the nature of God has made me realize what I would like to do for Him. The call&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}