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There is a lot of bad stuff that happens in our world â war, famine, disease, abuse, neglect. And perhaps closer to home â rejection, job losses, financial uncertainty, broken relationships, and more.
There are two ways we can respond to itâ¦
We can allow our faith and our hope to be shaken.
We can throw our hands up and say, “Where is God?!? How could He let this happen?!? Life stinks and it’s not getting any better!
ORâ¦
We can be stirred.
We can know that there is hope⦠We are the hope. Ordinary people are making a difference one day at a time, one person at a time.
When confronted by your own personal problems or the problems of this world, will you be shaken or stirred?
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Even after 42 years of life and 16 years as as a pastor, I still sometimes wonder what I want to be when I grow up. (Not that I’m seriously considering changing jobs any time soon.)
That’s why Denis Haack’s post Discovering Your Calling, Slowly resonates with me. He writesâ¦
Some people walk through life and discover their calling and gifts as their pilgrimage unfolds. The point is not how fast you uncover such things but whether you are faithful to what you know, to what has been revealed so far. The danger is not missing your calling, but being disobedient, or disdaining your gifts because you’d prefer something else. It’s a good formula for becoming increasingly bitter about life.
Many of us were not created for a singular, highly-focused purpose. We may have several smaller callings.
We may also have a clear calling for a season and then find ourselves meandering through the desert wondering what God has in store for us next. That meandering phase doesn’t necessarily mean we’re lost and certainly doesn’t mean God has abandoned us.
Sometimes God leads us on the long and windy road to exercise and strengthen our faith, to see if we’ll trust Him when the future is unclear, to see if we want Him even more than we want clarity of purpose.
Do you know your calling? If so, what is it and when did you know it was what you are called to do? If not, what are you doing to discover your calling?
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I noticed he was using our little stick vacuum, so I responded, “I think if you were to use the big vacuum you could finish faster.”
He replied, “I know.”
And continued to use the stick vacuum.
“I know” seems to be one of my kids’ favorite phrases, so I’ve developed a favorite response of my own:
If you know⦠then do.
Leadership guru John Maxwell wrote:
The greatest gap is the gap between knowing and doing.
I think he’s right.
We find ourselves in a lot of difficult situations in life. Most of the time we know what we need to do.
What do you know you need to do?
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