SUMMARY

FAITH

In every human existence has its own Call Narrative, a call to which to live into a harmonious way of living, which anchors the faith in God, as the source of everything. This call is a special call to us individuals in a different perspective or dimension of our faith, some are called to live in three levels in life, to a married life, religious life and to be called into single blessedness. This call narrative implies the theophany, commissioning, objection to the mission, assurance and acceptance. Through this call narrative we could also experience the ten steps of faith in particular in hunger’s hearth, encounter with Christ Jesus, call for conscious, and others, Perhaps, as we experience this narrative then we are called into a special way of our life journey, a special that makes us closer to the divine person of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
However, if we try to put it into a concrete manifestation of this call narrative we could narrate to the Old Testament events on how Abraham as the father of nation respond this call of God, even the first apostle of Jesus as the first witness of his miraculous event by words and deeds, in fact the story of Moses as the bearer of salvation of the chosen people of God, all of them are called by God in a special way, even they are not capable to this call.
In the call of Abraham, even he is not certain to the place which Yahweh offer to him but still he obey to the command of God, he lift his old way of living and follow the command of God, with great faith on his heart, he was commission by God to depart to a certain place with his wife Sarah, he even asked himself for he is not worthy, but the assurance God that we will be there to guide him, he will be there to protect him in the midst of pains to encounter. And with this the acceptance to follow the will of God, with great desire, hope, and faith.
Like Abraham, it is also what the experience of the first apostle of Jesus as the first witness of the divine revelation, through this call narrative they were also called into a different way of their life, some are fishermen, others a tax collector, and a sinners, and as they are called they have a religious experiences of Jesus that mark there conversion into the life of Jesus, the fulfillment in their hunger’s heart, being down and out of love, and experiencing to a strange God. They were also commission by Jesus to be fishers of men, to spread and proclaim the word of God to the poor of the society, but they are not worthy of it, they are outcast of the society, they are sinners. But Jesus did not look there infidelity, Jesus did not choose the righteous but he chooses the weakness in order to be strong he always intervene and give them the assurance that he will be always with in to guide them to protect them as they experience persecution to defend their faith.
Indeed, the call of Moses has its also a significant event to this narrative call, to be the bearer and the instrument of salvation to the chosen people as they inter into a special relationship with Yahweh, and through Moses God give to the Israelites the law to make them a holy people and a great nation.
Moreover, prior to this as they were called through this call narrative they left, they focus, and they surrender their selves to God. We also are challenge as we continue to offer our self to God in different way, to left everything even it is important to us, we should have to focus to the one who called us, and the most important is to surrender our self to the one who called us to respond with great faith.