I was just revisiting a passage in Courage & Calling by Gordon T. Smith (1999) and found this paragraph:
Once again I must stress: vocation and career are not the same. They may coincide, but for many people that will not be the case. At each phase of our life we need to ask the question: Who am I and what fundamentally, am I called to be and do? What is my purpose, my reason for being? And then we must ask what we are being called to do now, in the immediate: What is the current duty, responsibility or job that God is placing before me? How can I fulfill this current responsibility in light of who I am? The current responsibility or job may seem quite mundane—caring for children, getting a job to pay the rent or studying. But it is God’s call for the moment, for the time being. And we accept this as from the hand of God and see it in light of the complete picture of who we are and who we are called to be.
What a great passage. This really puts things in perspective anytime a person feels that their work is not “what they want” or what they “are supposed to be doing right now.” Everything happens for a reason and this is such a great reminder that God has a plan.
No comments:
Post a Comment