our calling

Do you ever wonder what your true calling is?

Sometimes I wonder if I have found mine yet. I see people all around me that seem like they have found their true calling. I see experienced finical advisors on a daily basis and the work I see them do is incredible. Everything they do just seems so natural. Everything in me wishes I was at that point. But I am just not there yet...

I am sure you feel that way at your work place as well. Especially for those of you who read this that are just beginning their careers. We are so new to everything, it's hard to answer the question if this is our calling or not.

While we often relate our jobs to our calling, I believe our true calling goes deeper than that.

"With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worth of his calling, and that by his power may he bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deep prompted by faith. We pray this so that the name of our God Lord Jesus may be gloried in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ." (2 Thessalonians 1:11-12)

Our "calling" from God, as Christians, is to become like Christ.

This is a gradual, lifelong process that will be completed when we see Christ face-to-face.

To be "worthy" of this calling means to want and to do what is right and good.

We aren't perfect yet, but we are moving in that direction as God works in us.

Our "calling' is a lifelong, gradual journey. We can't all of a sudden decide to be like Christ and it happens. To be "worthy" of his calling is the first step. We must want to do what is right and good....that is where it all starts.

I encourage you to really pray about doing what is right and good. When you begin to do that you become more worthy of God's calling, and that will lead you to becoming more and more like Christ...which is our true calling.