Wednesday, June 24, 2009

What's God's "Call" on My Life?

I've given the above question a lot of thought over the past few years. I recently read the book, Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung. His main point was to quit waiting for some miraculous sign to show me what to do with my life. My job is to love the Lord, seek his Kingdom, and pursue Christ-likeness. With that in mind, I also found the following from The Resurgence very helpful.

Christians don't need to be specially "called" to live missionally; it is inherent in being a disciple. To become a disciple of Jesus means that you evaluate your passions and talents in terms of how they can best be used to spread God's kingdom. The call has already been issued: "Glorify me in all that you do. Love and serve your neighbor. Go into the world and preach the gospel to every person." That's it.

Each person must evaluate how they have best been suited to fulfill that call, but the call is clear. If you are a businessman, you are to do excellent work to the glory of God, to the benefit of humanity, and to the testimony of Christ in your community. You don't have to wait on a special call to begin to do so—you've already received that call as a Christian. We talk about finding God's will; it's not lost...

...I say this because we have so many people sitting around waiting on a warm, fuzzy, and goose-bump-inducing vision from God before they embark on some ministry. Maybe we've invented the whole language of calling to mask the fact that most Christians don't want to live missionally.

They're going to have more on this topic. I'll be on the lookout for it.

2 comments:

Amber Cullum said...

good post. did you enjoy the whole book? looks like a read i might enjoy

Matthew said...

Amber, thanks for the comment. Yes, I really enjoyed DeYoung's book. It's a quick read, but was very helpful for me. There a great review of the book by Tim Challies here:

http://www.challies.com/archives/book-reviews/book-review---just-do-something.php

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