I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called. [Ephesians 4:1]

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God. [Colossians 1:10]


...walk worthy of the vocation...

There is a quantum of maturity and lifestyle expected of every level of Christian height that you have reached. Do not be found living a life that is "lower" than the standard of the calling that you have received. It is not enough to just do right. There is a righteousness that is expected of every level unto which grace has carried you.

There is a lifestyle that is expected of children, and it will be okay for them. There is another lifestyle that is expected of youths, young adults and grownup men/women, which are different one from another. Each level has its expectations. Living and behaving like a child while you are 16 years old raises a lot of questions that query your real age. It is equally the same in the spiritual.

What is not sinful when practiced as a child becomes sinful when permitted as an adult. Spiritual growth confers a higher responsibility and expectations upon men who have received grace.

To be found living a life lower than your height/age in grace, is to cause confusion and dilute spiritual things. You will just make small men, weak men and unserious men to be feeling that themselves too have arrived and there is nothing big ahead for them to seek again, since yourself who claim to have grown up and gone far, have not yet outgrown babishness in character and lifestyle. You will cause others to relax in their mediocrity without a hunger for deeper things of God. If yourself that claim to be high up are manifesting a lifestyle that is of their level, they will easily believe that there is nothing new "up there" to go and get, hence they relax.

It is confusion to begin to seek and pray for a height you are not prepared to "live in". You cannot attain a level you do not wish to sustain by life. It is only proud men who want a calling/status and they are not ready to surrender their lives to walk in that calling. They are just interested in fame, name or status symbol. Are you a Pastor, then live the life that is expected of a Pastor. Do not give occasion for little men to begin to speak derogatively against divine things by your lifestyle.


...I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord...

Even though Paul the Apostle here is referring to a physical prison where he has been placed and kept because of his zeal for following the Lord and preaching the good news of the gospel to all, yet I see a revelation from the Lord on becoming a prisoner for Him once he has called me with a holy calling in order to occupy a space for His glory.

Every vocation into which I have been called now, is a prison with walls that must define the perimeter of my movement. It defines my movement, expression, behavior, action and reactions. It states clearly my limits, my starts and my stops. My vocation determines the level of my own freedom, and not necessarily what others do or not.

The spiritual height into which I have attained automatically confines me within. It imprisons me to a character behavior, lifestyles and manifestations that I cannot leave or do otherwise. Others may live a lower life, but I cannot anymore. The calling of God has edged me in, and placed a fenced boundary around me beyond which I can no longer pass. To be called of God, is to be gagged. It is to be stripped of some lower attitudes and ways of life, and in the same vein, it is to be clothed with a higher life that such spiritual level speaks about. As free as grace is, it restricts me from misbehaving. (Titus 2:11-15)

The grace I have obtained by virtue of the vocation/calling that I have received of the Lord, that grace sets my eyes above and not below. What I was seeing when I was younger starts fading away out of my sight the higher I go, and the more of richer higher things I also begin to see as I climb along.

...Selah!