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WHEN GOD CALLS 

By Paul E. Grant 
 

 God’s call will mean the death of you 
All that you have been or known, 

Brought under his scrutiny and review 
To be exclusively his own 

 
Peter, in his pre-Jesus time  
Did whatever he wanted1, 

When confronted by this call sublime 
  He renounced self-rule and yielded 

 
Culture says, ‘Fulfil your full potential’, 

But to die to one’s ambition 
Is the very heart of Jesus’ Gospel 
 And participation in his mission  

 
The indwelling fullness of Christ in you 

Means a rendezvous with dying; 
Death to who you are or want to do 

 Is God’s road to biblical living   
 

Jesus’ demand comes with the cost 
Of self-abandonment, 

Therefore, drop dead, get lost! 
He brings his very own management 

 
God’s call means life through death 

The Calvary code is the key, 
To follow, serve and receive the breath 

Of the Holy Spirit’s energy 
 

Not my will; into your hands, 
Was the life Jesus lived with the Father, 

And that is the way that Jesus plans 
For those who would go with him further 

 
When God calls a man he bids him come and die2 

Is the essence of Jesus’ demands, 
Submitting to this we identify 

And from there we fulfil his commands 
 

                                                                          Paul E. Grant 

                                                                               October  2006   
 

                                                           
1
 John 21:18 

2
 Dietrich Bonhoeffer