Every ministry or everyone has a calling in the Body of Christ with each part of the Body serving differently (1 Corinthians 12:12-30).

A man of God wrote: “The Church is one body.” Paul said, "We were baptized into one body in a single Spirit" (1 Corinthians 12:13). But this one body has many parts. As Paul said, "If they were all the same part, how could it be a body? As it is, the parts are many but the body is one" (1 Corinthians 12:19). Not everyone can be everything. Often we expect one member of the body to fulfil a task that belongs to others. But the hands cannot be asked to see or the eyes to hear. Together we are Christ's body, each of us with a part to play in the whole (see 1 Corinthians 12:27). Let us be grateful for our limitation but being a real part in the body.

Jesus came as a sacrificial Lamb to save the world and He became obedient till death - even death on the cross (Philippians 2:8). Hence, He remained silence and went to the cross to fulfil the will of the Father.

Moses’ calling was to perform all the wonders as a demonstration to convince the Pharaoh that God had called him to set his people free and to lead them out of Egypt. The Lord told Moses in Exodus 4:21, "When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go."

God prepares each one He calls in a different way. In Acts 7:22 "Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action." Daniel was in the Babylonian ways and he was even given a name of a Babylonian god and he was chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers and diviners. Daniel 5:11, The Queen told the king, "There is a man in your kingdom that has the spirit of the holy god in him. In the time of your father he was found to have insight and intelligence and wisdom like that of the gods. The Queen told the ruler that King Nebuchadnezzar your father–your father the king, I say–appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers and diviners."

A senior pastor of a Mega Church in Singapore humorously told his congregants not to scold or bad mouth him behind his back because of his role as a magician to draw salvation. He shared that the Lord would discipline him if he has sinned against God. As a man of God whom the Lord has ordained for a specific task to bring in salvation, the pastor was just obeying what the Lord has deposited in his heart, just like Noah was given a specific task to build a boat in the middle of a dry land. There was no biblical precedent of a virgin giving birth to a child, yet Mary was willing to obey God to do the task given to her.

Paul an intellectual and learned man of the Law of Moses was called to preach the message of the cross - the message of the cross is the power of the gospel.

John 4:34, "My food,” said Jesus “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work."

Paul said in 2 Timothy 4:7, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have kept the faith." When we finally meet our Maker, we alone are accountable to Him and not our critics for the works that He has ordained us during our lives on earth.

Jesus said very clearly in Matthew 7:21, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."

Let us not judge or be critical about others if we do not understand the kind of burden God has given and ordained them for the work. We should heed the wisdom of Kathie Walters when she wrote about critics: “Do what God wants you to do and stop judging ministries because you do not know how God works and you are not God.” Or at least heed the advice of Paul when he taught that we should continue to work our salvation with fear and trembling…. (Philippians 2:12).

We all fall short of the glory of God and if we really work out our salvation with fear and trembling, we would be so busy repenting that we don’t really have the time to judge others. This is the secret to our spiritual growth which is God’s heartbeat for His children to grow from glory to glory to the image of Christ. It is through repentance and His sanctification that we can be filled to His fullness as God gives the Spirit without measure (John 3:34).

Hebrews 12:14, "Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord." Though the Lord loves sinners, He cannot tolerate sin and though He lives in all believers, the Glory of God which is His manifested presence rests on only a few.

Much as He shows unfailing kindness to his anointed (Psalm 18:50), He will discipline His anointed when the anointed sins against God.

1 Samuel 15:3, the Lord told Saul through Samuel, "Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys."

In our present world, isn't killing innocent women, children and infants considered a very serious crime? Saddam Hussein went to the gallows for such genocide committed against his people.

Saul's partial obedience caused him his throne. Saul was punished for his disobedience. The Spirit of God was grieved and left Saul and Saul lost his kingdom to David (1 Samuel 16:14).

God disciplined David for his sins. David has a heart that God loves. The time he suffered greatly was when he began to count his fighting men. Sin of pride came into his life when He put his trust on the strength of the numbers of fighting men instead of God. His evil scheme to take Bathsheba as his wife took two lives but the sin of trusting on the numbers of his fighting men made God very angry and caused 70,000 lives to perish (2 Samuel 24).

We should not judge others just because they do not share the same burden God has called us. The Bible taught us not to judge. James 4:12, "There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you–who are you to judge your neighbour? “Hence, let us do what the Lord has ordained us and not be critical by judging other ministries.

We just do what the Lord has ordained us to do. It will be disastrous for a doctor trying to be a lawyer fighting a case in court, so don't expect a person to have the burden of a shepherd if he is not called to be one or a shepherd trying to play the role of a prophet.