{"id":361,"date":"2019-03-25T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/?p=361"},"modified":"2020-04-02T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:09:07","slug":"the-call-is-reason-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/JourneyNotes\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"The Call Is Reason Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<audio id=\"wp_mep_1\" src=\"http:\/\/crosslabyrinth.com\/m4a\/Journey%20Notes%2020%20The%20Call%20is%20Reason%20Enough%20Accomp.m4a\"     controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"  >\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/audio>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\njQuery(document).ready(function($) {\r\n\t$('#wp_mep_1').mediaelementplayer({\r\n\t\tm:1\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen']\r\n\t\t,audioWidth:,audioHeight:\r\n\t});\r\n});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<p>God called Abram to go to a new land.\u00a0 Abram went.\u00a0 No explanations requested.\u00a0 \u00a0No explanations offered.\u00a0 By answering that call, though, Abram&#8217;s life was transformed from ordinary to extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p>Some things in life are just that simple.\u00a0 Probably more than we want to admit.\u00a0 How often do we have a clear understanding of what is right and what we should do, yet we choose to do something else?\u00a0 How much better could life be if we responded to God&#8217;s calling the way that Abram did?<\/p>\n<p>Charles Wesley spent his life answering God&#8217;s call.\u00a0 His father and both of his grandfathers were ministers in the Church of England, and Charles was ordained after two of his brothers before him.\u00a0 Answering the call to ordained ministry was an ordinary part of life in his family, and he carried out his ministry in a very ordinary way.\u00a0 Ordinary, that is, until one day in 1738 when Charles was working through a crisis of faith.\u00a0 That night he experienced &#8220;a strange palpitation of the heart; and said, yet feared to say, &#8216;I believe!\u00a0 I believe!'&#8221;\u00a0 A few days later his brother John had his famous experience at Aldersgate.\u00a0 From that time their ministries stopped being ordinary and became extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p>The following year a collection called\u00a0<em>Hymns and Sacred Songs<\/em> was published.\u00a0 It contained <em>Forth in Thy Name, O Lord<\/em>, a new hymn by Charles Wesley.\u00a0 Read the lines of the first stanza:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go,<br \/>\nmy daily labor to pursue;<br \/>\nthee, only thee, resolved to know<br \/>\nin all I think or speak or do.<\/p>\n<p>Abram answered God&#8217;s true calling for his life.\u00a0 Charles Wesley did, too.\u00a0 As we continue our pilgrim journey, may each of us learn to do the same.\u00a0 The call is reason enough.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Forth In Thy Name, O Lord (United Methodist Hymnal #438)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W_g8w-fcemk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Follow the Path!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><em><strong>CARadke<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[Use with <em>Choosing Abram<\/em>, day 20 of <a title=\"Order your copy of A Labyrinth Pilgrimage today!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/3366946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>A Labyrinth Pilgrimage<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God called Abram to go to a new land.\u00a0 Abram went.\u00a0 No explanations requested.\u00a0 \u00a0No explanations offered.\u00a0 By answering that call, though, Abram&#8217;s life was transformed from ordinary to extraordinary. 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