Your Calling

December 9

What have you been called to do? Some people feel a very pronounced direction over their lives, a clear sense of destiny. Individuals have claimed to have known from childhood exactly the career path they were to choose. Some had the sense of their life’s purpose planted by a science professor or an English teacher.

A beautiful novel, OCTOBER SKY tells of a man, Homer Hickum, inspired in 1957 by the flight of Sputnik over his West Virginia coal-mining town to pursue a career with NAASA. The book unfolds his struggles to overcome the twin negatives of circumstances and attitude to realize his calling to be an aeronautical engineer.

Many people ‘feel led’ by the Lord toward endeavors they never would have imagined for themselves. Perhaps they have devoted their lives to nursing the sick and dying as did Mother Theresa. Perhaps they have become missionary doctors or teachers. Whatever their God-ordained calling may be, they must be true to it.

All believers have been called to place their lives at the feet of Jesus. Sometimes that takes them to glorious heights; sometimes, into denizens of despair. No matter where we follow Him, we know the words of I Peter 2:21 are true, “This is what you were called to do, because Christ suffered for you…follow Him; do as He did.”