What’s In Your Hands

Some of us know we have a calling at a young age, but we have no idea what it is.

Your “calling” is a spiritual thing, you feel it, but can’t explain it and when you are doing something else you just know you are doing the wrong thing. You always intuitively know that you’re meant to be doing a particular thing.

Your calling, gifting and talent are different:

• Calling is what you’ve been called to be to people.
• Gifting or talent is that strength you have to reach those people.
• Interest are those things you are curious about, that aid your talent/gifting.

Your calling doesn’t mean you are already good at something it just means that you have a gift or talent for it, It’s a feeling you get that you want to be something to people and not just yourself. And you want to get better or be ready for the people you’re called to serve for when you meet them.

Do you get what I’ saying, remember Ed Sheeran from yesterday’s post?

How many of you thought the story was about the guitar. If you did then you missed what the illustration was about. It’s about his gift, he was called to sing but he needed to develop his guitar skills to reach his audience.

The gifting doesn’t change, but the environment in which it’s practiced in will continue to change and so will the way we reach the people using it.

What do you think a calling is? Google says it’s strong urge toward a particular way of life or career; a vocation.  It could be “a profession, occupation, vocation, call, summons, career, work, employment, job, business, trade, craft etc.

 

Most of us get the calling thing wrong;

Paraphrasing Pastor Rick Warren from his TedTalk “I think most of us get the idea of our purpose and calling wrong by saying a life of purpose is not about doing good things. But doing things that matter through service to others and that it’s in being of service that we can fully be living in our purpose”

I can explain this as meaning we must serve where it matters to our purpose and what we are called to be; in our vocation, job, our volunteer work.

I believe that this looks like a person who has certain skills but unknown to them uses it in a vocation that’s similar but not the one that matters to their soul. So if a person is gifted to be work in the technical office but you end up working in the creative arts office then you are not where you should be, you won’t do your best work in the technical office.

“What’s in your hands’. This is the question that God asked Moses.

Broken down it means; it’s means what’s your talent, gifting, interest, purpose and what do you feel God has put in your heart. Rick Warren answered it this way in his 2006 TEDTalk; “What’s in your hands’; It’s your IDENTITY; INFLUENCE; INCOME. It’s your talent, ideas, wealth, opportunity, background, education, freedom, network, place of birth, place of origin, creativity and so on and so forth.

Purpose revealed in every child of God is to know that God gets pleasure in watching you be you.

Are you a visionary?

What walls have you thought of bringing down; like Joshua, what rope are you willing to let down the window like Rahab given a label by society she chose not to be what everybody said she was, like Joseph what visions of the future do you see, and how can you start working on that now?

Purpose in every child of God is to know that God gets pleasure in watching you be you; as you dig deeper to find what you’re suitable for. And that no matter what profession you choose you will prosper.

To God’s precious teens, here’s my question ” what are you wired to do and how can you turn that into your purpose, cause or a vocation?

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Sincerely in God’s Joy,

Gloria