Ordinary… And Chosen

MON., APR. 29, 1991, 6:24 AM
FARM, STUDY

The sermon yesterday dealt with ordinary people, and the Bible class with Paul’s affirmations about being chosen. In one sense you are an ordinary person, but in another you are not. You have been chosen by Me, but you also have accepted My call. Hear Me, o son, as I teach you about such matters on another wet morning.

My description of you is a familiar one – above average, but not outstanding. As a person who can be called Doctor and Professor in a highly developed culture you are not ordinary. Yet among those who are called Doctor and Professor you are quite ordinary, with many who surpass you. You don’t expect to be remembered as one of the outstanding leaders, even in your field. And it is good that you do not have such aspirations.

Because you accept My direction of your life you are a saint, and this is more than ordinary. Yet among those who I call saints you are quite ordinary. You have been chosen, and you both accept and affirm this chosenness. However, the nature of the task for which you have been chosen is a rather ordinary one, given the monumental tasks I have given other called servants of Mine. The Scriptures offer the words of many called men, and history tells of men and women who did My will in truly memorable ways.

You hear Me accurately. I have never given up My right to choose and to elect. My will is more powerful than any human will, and I do exert it, from time to time. I choose and call some outstanding souls, even as the tasks to which some have been called seem to compete with one another. Sometimes this competition is only apparent, and sometimes I do this just for fun. It was fun to arrange the “competition” between Paul and Peter and James. Each has an important message for some Christians. But I had to arrange some resolution, and Peter was called to do that.

I called Constantine to establish the Christian church. I called Luther and Calvin to protect and break away from the one church. I called Edgar Cayce to offer an interpretation of earth lift that you and a few others accept… an extraordinary view of everlasting and eternal life.

Yet mostly I have called ordinary people, and most of these you shall never hear of nor know. I called Ted Braun, quite an ordinary pastor and preacher, to be aflame with the liberality of My message and to establish and maintain some unity with Christian in Cuba. He will never be widely known. He just is one you do know.

Mabel, your Mother-in-law, has a special calling, and she has been true to it for many years, even at the expense of her roles as mother and grandmother. She has done much good in her ministry, but in the great panoply of ministries world wide and throughout history hers is quite ordinary. Some of the messages I send to people through her bring exceptional news or an unusual challenge. Most, however, are rather ordinary consolation and encouragement, even as the wording makes them sound otherwise.

Here’s a bit of fun. I call certain people to affirm strongly the doctrine of free will. They “know” they have free will, and they perish the thought that they could be chosen for such an affirmation.

One of the most interesting observations I have is of persons who are not called by Me for some important task who feel that they have been chosen. Some even affirm this election. While some of these are embarrassments to the faith others are quite committed and quite useful. Most of these know, in their spirits, that they have not been chosen, but they wish they had been, and they choose to act as thought this were so. I accept these services, with joy and appreciation.