Find your calling

Calling. Everyone asks. What is my vocation? How do I find my calling? What’s my purpose here on earth? Creator, what have you created me for?

Jesus told us our purpose as Christians:

Love God.

Love your neighbor.

Love yourself.

Doesn’t the Bible illustrate what this looks like in small and large ways?

Isn’t the commandment to love the summary of the Law and the Prophets?

Turn the other cheek.

Take up your cross.

Help, give, serve.

Be welcoming.

Deny yourself.

Forgive.

Ouch, discipleship hurts. 

What about the beautiful, great, and magnificent callings? 

Where are the great and glorious deeds for God?

But isn’t the way down just the one that leads up? 

Aren’t the highest supposed to be the servants of the lower? 

Will God not exalt the humble ones?

Yes, there are specific callings related to our gifts, strengths and passions.

But what would they be if the foundation of love were not laid, as Paul states in 1 Corinthians 13?

Continuing his description of the gifts in chapter 12, it follows that the exercise of ANY gift, indeed any calling, is NOTHING if one does not have love.

Love God.

Love your neighbor.

Love yourself.

These words are like a refrain that should guide the song of our life. The lyrics, everything, conforms to the refrain to correspond to it, to clarify it, to live it out in the smallest detail.

Isn’t the refrain the central point, the foundation that must be laid so that the song is coherent in itself?

How could one find one’s vocation and pursue it, be it in business, in the social sphere, politics, in the crafts, in the creative, in the church, indeed wherever, if love does not shape and carry our actions?

Perhaps God wants to lay the foundation right here in the question of calling. Now here in everyday life, where there are countless moments to practice the refrain, solidify it, and collect the lyrics.

Love God.

Love your neighbor.

Love yourself.

As you live and move in your true destiny, in love, 

the space becomes larger and larger, and before you know it.., 

you live and love in your calling and realize: God has led me here. And in the process, you may not even find a particular spot in a particular place, but you realize, “Encouraging others, that’s it!” or “Sharing the Gospel; that’s what my heart beats for.” 

Some find their specific vocation in a profession, and still others realize that their calling changes and transforms throughout their lives. 

Is it not true that when one seeks first God’s kingdom, everything else will be added?

Can’t a calling also be revealed when His kingdom is the most important concern? 

Do we not gain our life precisely when we give it up for HIM?

Do we not find ourselves precisely when we find HIM?

God always has our calling in mind and He guides us.

As we make His kingdom our primary concern and realize that our calling is not to serve ourselves, but to serve God and our fellow man, He leads us into our destiny. 

Love God.

Love your neighbor.

Love yourself.

Lyric after lyric joins the chorus, writing a song, a whole life. 

Now it is a love song, singing of the only true love, not only in words, but solidified in deeds, not for one’s own ears, but for the ears of others, for which the gifts were created in the first place. 

Read more:

God is here with you right now

How to abide in joy

Love is our destiny

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