What Are You Called To Do?

Do not seek to understand in order to believe,

but believe in order to understand.

For unless you believe, you will not understand.

- St Anselm of Canterbury

 

What Are You Called To Do?

 

You are the salt of the earth... (Matthew 5:13)

 

Observe:

1) Your calling is often connected to what troubles you deeply.

 

For Moses it was the oppression of his people. So God used that, and called Moses to lead his people to freedom.

 

For William Wilberforce it was slavery. He devoted his entire life to seeing it eradicated in England .

 

For Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, it was the injustice of a society that enslaved and oppressed African-Americans. 

If you want to discover your calling, begin praying about what troubles you deeply.

Usually we try to avoid unpleasantness, so if you have a sense that your calling for example, involves helping the poor, spend time around those in poverty.

Allow your heart to be moved, carry within you the conviction that things must change, and keep praying, 'Lord, make me a change agent.'

2) Your calling means God believes in you.

When Jesus called His disciples they didn't look like winners.

 

Generally, in their day if someone was going to be the follower of a rabbi it happened much earlier. Plus, rabbis didn't recruit, they took applications.

 

But not Jesus. He picked a doctor, a tax collector and fishermen and said, 'I believe in you. What I know I will teach you.' He promised, '... He who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also... ' (John 14:12). No wonder they left their nets!

 

Jesus empowered His followers to go out to live as He lived.

Today, that's what He is calling you to do.

 

God has a plan for you. Believe & He will direct your paths.

PRAISE GOD
BLESSED BE THE ONE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD



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