What My Call is Really About
Today’s post is written by Jacob Hoyer. Visit his website and leave your comments to the post below.
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Shortly after I finished a year doing missions work around the world, I vowed I would only ever do ministry full-time. Ministry was my CALL and I was ready to go after it. So I took a support-based position with the organization that had mobilized me into the nations. Forty hours a week in ministry.
It wasn’t long after my wife and I were married – about a year and a half after we had returned from the mission field – that we knew our time with this organization was winding down. We knew we needed to move on, but we weren’t all that sure where to.
So in the ten months that we’ve been married, I think we’ve made four or five different plans of what we would do in the coming season, settling on moving to Florida at the end of this month. I’ll be in church work (part-time) and she’ll be looking for a new job.
A lot of factors went into that process, but through it all we were pretty peaceful. I think I’m beginning to see that my CALL is more about who I am than what I do. I can be who I am regardless of what I’m asked to do.
See, everything ends. The trouble with thinking that we’re called to do ONE THING our entire lives is that hardly anybody does any one thing for very long at all. Knowing that the next job I take probably won’t be the same job I have for the rest of my life makes this transition a lot easier.
So while the next thing I do may not tickle my every vocational fancy, it will put me in a position to love and provide for my wife. It will allow me to connect with other people who want to be a part of what God is doing in their own community.
While my next job may not be what I pictured God calling me to do when I first came off the mission field, it allows me to explore an environment in which I can see myself continuing to be the person I believe God has called me to be. And it’s an environment in which I can see myself growing into the person he hasn’t even shown me yet.
