Do the Best Thing

eDevotion

Encouragement for your daily walk with God

One thing that I admire about Jesus is that He was able to say, “No,” to a good thing in order to say, “Yes,” to the best thing. It happened once in Capernaum just after He returned from His 40-day wilderness experience. He preached in the synagogue and continued His ministry among the people; a ministry of healing and deliverance. The people did not want Him to leave. But Jesus told them, “I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent.”

He resisted the pull of the people by keeping to His purpose: to seek and to save the lost everywhere. Suppose He hadn’t. Where would we be if He had set up shop in Capernaum? Suppose He thought, “Everyone wants me here. All these people can’t be wrong, can they?”

Well, the truth of the matter is, yes they could! So Jesus said, “No,” to a good thing in order to say, “Yes,” to the right thing, the best thing: His unique calling. 

You, dear Christ follower, have a unique calling as well. You have been shaped by God for a special purpose and no one else can do what you can do! So anchor yourself in that calling. You will be happier and the Kingdom of God will be enhanced if you do. It was the apostle Peter who taught, “As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 4:10-11

You are uniquely called!

Now when it was day, He departed and went into a deserted place. And the crowd sought Him and came to Him, and tried to keep Him from leaving them; but He said to them, “I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent.” Luke 4:42-43