Jesus Calling

In her book, .....A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall ...tells how her late preacher-husband felt a sense of destiny a sense of call in his life. 

One dark night, Peter, then a young man, decided to take a Shortcut across the Scottish moors.

He knew there was a deep deserted limestone quarry in that area,  but he was confident that even in the dark he could avoid it.

Suddenly, ....he heard someone call, .... "Peter." There was great urgency in the voice.

Peter stopped and responded:..... "Yes who is it?

What do you want?" There was no answer.

He walked a few more steps and then heard the voice calling more urgently,.........."Peter!"

He paused .....then he stumbled ....and fell on his knees.

Putting out his hand to catch himself, ......he found nothing there.

He was at the very edge of the abandoned stone quarry.

Just one more step ..... would have meant certain death." 

The calling that night  confirmed for Peter Marshall that he was clearly being called by God ......for ministry.

And I am convinced that each of us has been called by God to fulfill a purpose, to fulfill a spiritual calling in this life.

Reminds me of the classic hymn.

Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, 

Calling for you and for me; 

See, on the portals He’s waiting and watching, Watching for you and for me. 

 Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading, Pleading for you and for me?

  Why should we linger and heed not His mercies, Mercies for you and for me?  

  Time is now fleeting, the moments are passing, Passing from you and from me; Shadows are gathering, deathbeds are coming, Coming for you and for me. 

 Come home, come home, Ye who are weary, come home; Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,Calling, O sinner, come home!

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;  Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.  Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isaiah 1:16‭-‬18 KJV

https://bible.com/bible/1/isa.1.16-18.KJV

Have you got quiet enough to hear Jesus calling you?  Is he calling you from the brink of destruction, from the boarder of disorder. He is calling you to come home. Quit running in the dark. Come to the light. Come home