Follow God's Call

Follow God's Call “Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do.” Deuteronomy 29:9 I have always thought about the story I heard Billy Graham tell on one of his Television broadcasts many years ago. The story is about a very successful businessman who was called by the Lord to sell his business, and go to a remote island in the South Pacific and become a missionary, and use his money to help the poor in this remote and backward island. He followed his calling, and sold his business and everything he owned, and moved to this remote place of the world. After several years of ministering and preaching to the people in this remote part of the world, his money was gone and he had no choice but to return home. He had no money and no material wealth of any kind left, and lived in poverty for the remainder of his life, and could not understand why the Lord had called him, and now to be in the financial position he was in. It was only a few months before his death that he received a visit from a young man who he had met and ministered to on the island. This young man had accepted the Lord as his Savior, and had been saved after hearing the missionary. He had also become a minister himself and started a church, and now had one of the largest churches in the South Pacific. Thousands of people had been saved by this young minister, and the Word of God had spread throughout the entire area. All of this was due to this missionary following the commands of Jesus and obeying him. The missionary now fully understood what the Lord had blessed him with and had planned for his life. God has a plan for you as well, and when you follow it, you will please God, and will be blessed. Robert W. Brock My Daily Devotional Volume Six December 3