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Making Your Calling Sure
Brian Mashburn
November 13, 2005
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Making Your Calling Sure
"Am I doing what I'm supposed to do?" he asked, with a look of despair and urgency and longing. Far from being an exciting question, his Christian experience taught him that he had better "get it right," so when Peter says to "make his calling sure" (2 Peter 1:10), he saw it as a warning not as an invitation.
How great it would be to actually know that I'm doing exactly what, and being exactly who, God has prepared in advance for me. It seems there are very few who are absolutely sure of their "calling." But I wonder, does this have to be a frustrating, my-soul-is-on-the-line-here problem?
What if the difficulty of discovering your calling is by design, by the Designer? What if the relationship you must grow in, to hear the Caller, is more important than knowing your calling? What if the "life" that we are meant to live is found within the journey to find it?
What if the very longing that is within us to do something that matters in this world is THE key and THE fuel to having a very real spiritual, special, personal relationship with God?
The pressure to find "our calling" would be off. The enjoyment that is in the searching would be on.
So no matter where you are, rest easy. You are right on track, you are not too late, you have not "missed it", you have not blown it, and you are not alone.
You can be sure of that.