Redemption's Reveille or Worship's Masterpiece

A role of highest honour and accountabilityis the focus of today's post Eph.4:1-3As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a mannerworthy of the calling you have received:with all humility and gentleness, with patience,bearing with one another in love, and with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spiritthrough the bond of peace. He has saved us and called us to a holy calling,not because of our works, but by His own purposeand by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began. For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you,leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps: But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do, God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful. Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God. When we believe, we then receive a most high, holy callThrough fellowship with Jesus Christ who died for one and allAnd rose again; He conquered death and broke the curse of sinTo save all who answer His call and put their faith in Him With the gift of God's grace, granted through His Son, Jesus Christ;We are redeemed; forgiven through His body sacrificed When we reckon redemption's cost; where sinless blood ran rifeTo wash away the wage of sin with everlasting life ...then, as we rise in newness, from the hour we believedA high and holy calling crowns the freedom Christ achievedFor we, the workmanship of God, purchased with a great priceAre urged to yield our bodies as a living sacrifice Created in His image, for good works that He ordained For us to walk in paths of righteousness; like soldiers trainedTo suffer hardship and endure all things for Jesus' nameTo refrain from entangling in affairs, worldly and vain God, rich in mercy, loves us; by his grace we have been savedAnd justified by faith in He who our penalty braved Then God forbid we turn again, when cleansed by Jesus' bloodLike a dog to its vomit or a washed pig to the mud But pray, each day we look to He who gave His all, and thenWith awed attention/devotion heed his high and holy call. AmenWe are ambassadors of Christ, His armour all we needTo thwart deception's darts and proclaim Christ is Lord indeed! Hark! Where the morning breaks, the ring of Redemption's Reveille Resounds, and peals through hearts and souls tuned humbly to God's willWhere faithful soldier fitted with the armour of the LordArise, fully committed to God's calling, through His Word ...to hail the One whose government and justice will not ceaseIn spirit and in truth to fulfill worship's Masterpiece/Master PeaceWilling to surrender until each Want is wholly awedAnd walking in a manner worthy of the call of God Janet Martin