My dear friend from Australia had set me thinking about the idea of calling; I had said that this is an issue that warrant continual conversation as we wrestle with the truths and its application. I'm continuing the conversation below with a passage from James Emery White's book: "Serious Times - Making your Life Matter in an Urgent Day." He has beautifully written about calling and I shall let him speak.
"We do not have a 'spiritual life'; we have life that is meant to be lived spiritually. Our careers must be approached in light of God's calling and passionately pursued as worship. Beyond this, whatever we find ourselves doing is to be infused with the greatest call of all: faithfulness. Without this deep and profound sense of vocation, we will simply race through schedules, build portfolios, climb corporate ladders and optimize our retirement plans for little more than economic benefit. Worse, we will fail to fulfill God's plan for our lives as marketplace men and women. We need those who are artists to be artists, thinking and acting Christianly as artists. The same is true of those in sales, marketing, engineering, teaching and real estate.
Christians fueled by a profound sense of calling will revolutionize and reform the fabric of daily life and radically challenge those lives they interact with. Further, when we will rise to the occasion and allow God to influence everyone around us. When we accept our calling and offer it to God in worship and obedience, it becomes a conduit for God's glory and work on this planet."
- James Emery White
All of life can be worship; I pray I can live in the light of this simple yet profound truth.
Ollie
June
2007
"We do not have a 'spiritual life'; we have life that is meant to be lived spiritually. Our careers must be approached in light of God's calling and passionately pursued as worship. Beyond this, whatever we find ourselves doing is to be infused with the greatest call of all: faithfulness. Without this deep and profound sense of vocation, we will simply race through schedules, build portfolios, climb corporate ladders and optimize our retirement plans for little more than economic benefit. Worse, we will fail to fulfill God's plan for our lives as marketplace men and women. We need those who are artists to be artists, thinking and acting Christianly as artists. The same is true of those in sales, marketing, engineering, teaching and real estate.
Christians fueled by a profound sense of calling will revolutionize and reform the fabric of daily life and radically challenge those lives they interact with. Further, when we will rise to the occasion and allow God to influence everyone around us. When we accept our calling and offer it to God in worship and obedience, it becomes a conduit for God's glory and work on this planet."
- James Emery White
All of life can be worship; I pray I can live in the light of this simple yet profound truth.
Ollie
June
2007
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