Are you comforted knowing you are called by name? Does it give you solace that you are called by someone else’s name? Do you know you were created for glory? Do you know you were formed and are being formed by God? Are strengthened knowing he will call you home?
God has promised to call each of us who follow him to be with him for eternity. He will call us by name to come to his side. There is no place on earth where we are too far for him to call us. There is nothing nor no one on this earth who can keep us from him when he calls.
Though many of the Israelites who heard the words of Isaiah thought he was talking about them, God is calling everyone who accepts him as their God and follows his Son. God will call every one of his sons. He will call every daughter. He will call all his children to be with him. It is no vain promise but a promise that God will fulfill in due time.
We should be comforted in knowing God will call us to him. We should be strengthened in our resolve to continue to follow God’s commands and seek to be like his Son, Jesus Christ. Not only will God call us, but he will glorify us in his glory. We will perfectly reflect him when we are called. It is for this purpose that we were made and for which God continues to form us.
I pray we all know God will call us by name. I pray we are strengthened in our resolve to follow him. I pray each one of us knows we will be glorified in the perfect reflection of God when he calls. God will call you by name. God will glorify you. You will be a perfect reflection of God.
Isaiah 43:6-7
I will say to the north, “Give them up,”
and to the south, “Do not withhold;
bring my sons from far away
and my daughters from the end of the earth—
everyone who is called by my name,
whom I created for my glory,
whom I formed and made.”
Marty Pressey 