The beautiful thing about REAL ZEAL is that it drives us to be passionate about the Lord versus being zealous for gifts, callings and ministry works.
Biblical scribes were filled with ZEAL for the Lord, and an URGENCY to please Him. In today’s culture, many people have a ZEAL FOR CALLINGS, WORKS & GIFTS, but they do not have a ZEAL for the LORD or heart that pursues what is urgent to Him.
As a result, urgency is often pushed toward personal goals and deadlines to be great. Spiritual urgency, however, is rooted in being burdened to fulfill the calling entrusted to you. Immediacy is a critical part of understanding URGENCY in our lives as scribes.
Urgency: An Asset To Scribes & Their Callings
Urgency is not rushing, doing something from a place of haste or hurriedness.
Rather, it is a place of measuring what is important, necessary and of immediate priority. In other words, things that are urgent need or immediate attention in the spirit realm and in the natural realm.
2 Timothy 4:2 ASV says, “Preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.”
This passage clearly shows that “urgency” is about doing what is of most importance to the Lord within our calling. It also indicates that “urgency” can be carried out with “patience” which also proves it is not about being rushed or hurried.
What is important for us to grasp here is that ZEAL, when rooted in the Lord, is accompanied by URGENCY to help us complete our course. Ecclesiastes 9:10a NIV stays, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might…”
Zeal: A Key To Our Calling
Finally, callings are activated by our ZEAL.
When ZEAL for the Lord is present in our lives, we will give Him everything we have on the inside of us to press in and press through!
We do it with our entire being. In other words, slothfulness or laziness is nowhere to be found! In addition, the immediacy of the assignment is ever before us… pushing us to complete.
EZRA lived in this place. He had a zeal for the Lord which gave him a zeal for his assignment.
Zeal Reveals Immediacy
The zeal for his assignment revealed the immediacy of that assignment. As a result, Ezra fulfilled his purpose and destiny.
Every person whom God used in scripture had PROFOUND – zeal and urgency for HIM and the work set before them. As a result, many made significant strides in their calling.
The prophet Jeremiah demonstrated what urgency and zeal looked like in His life. In the same way, it should have a similar look in ours. He says this in Jeremiah 20:9 NIV, “But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name, his word (or whatever you have been assigned to do in His name) is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.”
