Sunday, January 3, 2010

Calling: A Definition

Os Guiness writes:
Calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion and dynamism lived out as a response to his summons and service.   - The Call.
Everything we are. Everything we do. Everything we have. That sounds really inviting to me.

Two additional thoughts for now:
  • "God call us to himself so decisively..."  It is incredibly uplifiting and incredibly humbling to consider that God would call us-- Not just in the general "sure, everyone" sense, but in the "I knit you together in your mother's womb" sense. Who am i that He would call? And what have I done to respond?
  • "Everything..." I get so myopically focused on calling as career, that I fail to see the rest of everything: Husband, Father, Son, Brother, person who likes reading advice columns...  It explodes the question the question from "What will I be when I grow up?" to "What will I be and how is that reflected in all that I do?"

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