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Lisa Robson

Life With Jesus

March 20, 2019

Yes God, I mean No God…Finding Your Call and Serving



A yes to God actually means no to a whole lot of other things. When Peter said yes to Jesus, he said no to his family business of fishing. He said no to stability and security. No to financial well-being. Actually, he said no to a whole lot of things.

Sometimes I think when we hear the call of God, we think we can have it all. We think we can hear God talking to us and we can say yes to the call of God and yes to everything else. But the moment that you hear the call of God, and you choose to respond to it, to take up your cross and follow Jesus, all of a sudden we have to make a decision to say no to the world.

Sometimes I wonder if when we get called, we actually want to turn a blind eye and not pay the price, but get all the benefit. The Bible never said that following Jesus would be easy. It said that it was a narrow road. But it says that it leads to life. Pursuing the call of God is actually something that will ground you for the rest of your days. It is one of the answers to longevity.

Your Call


Have you ever said as a kid/teen “God use me. Use me God to do whatever you want to.” And sometimes I feel like he claims on those moments. He comes back and says, “Do you remember that night/morning when you were in church and you said, ‘God I’ll do anything. I’ll lay anything down. I’m your guy. I’ve got this. Here I am. Send me.”

And then he goes, “Go home and keep doing what you were doing.”

You say, “No, no, no. I said, “Here I am send me. Let me be the pastor, the worship leader, the missionary. I’ll go, Send me God to the nations.” 

He says, “Just go home. Be faithful to your wife. Love your children. Serve your local church. Do what the pastor is asking. Stop getting offended. That’s what the call of God looks like. Represent me well where you find yourself.” 

And I think as christians it’s interesting because the call of God is very clear to lay down our lives, to follow Jesus and to catch people. 


It’s the great commission, right? Go into all the world and make disciples. Teaching them to obey everything I have commanded. If your sitting here reading this and go, “I wonder what my call is?”, that is your call. I don’t think it gets any better or worse for any of us. I think we are all given the same call, to make disciples. 

How we do that looks different. Some of you will be in business, some of you in ministries, and some of you will be at school or a college. But we can work out that call wherever we find ourselves. Wherever we are, whatever we do, we get to work out the call to make disciples. 

But the beauty is you’re God created and he created a bunch of creatives. I think that adds whole other exciting dimension to the call. Because I actually think that God commissions you to reimagine His story, to actually take it and spin it in a hundred different ways and help society to see it like they have never seen it before. I don’t believe that creativity is for the church alone. I actually think it’s for the world. I think they’re meant to see and be amazed and astounded at the story we tell our stories better than anybody else’s story. Our redemptive story is beautiful and magnificent and vast. I’m always amazed because I think God is so much better than what they ever would tell you. I think when you encounter God for yourself He takes your breath away.

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