Highly, highly recommended...
Very few books have caused me to stop and question myself like this one! I needed to. Very appreciated and corrective.
One chapter preview from WTSbooks
I write slowly when I journal on paper... so this blog has become my personal journal. I try to post things that God teaches me on a regular basis. Sometimes I'm more faithful than others to post.
Very few books have caused me to stop and question myself like this one! I needed to. Very appreciated and corrective.
One chapter preview from WTSbooks
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Finding a calling has always been a particular struggle for me. I know of many who can identify but a few who don't... I am trying to learn from those who are walking faithful to their call.
When I use the word call, I realize of course that some people have no idea what I'm talking about, whereas some understand immediately. "Call" to me has a couple of facets. First a call always identifies a life purpose. To get to the end and have lived with meaning. A second layer to that is that is that it often can be attached to a career or vocation.
When I was 5 I wanted to be a NFL player and at 15 a missionary pilot and I knew without a doubt what I vocationally wanted to do with life. Of course, I was a terrible athlete, and God had other ideas. When I was 30, I knew again... But God again has other plans or timing.
What I've realized is that it is often in my pride that I assume I know the best plan for my life. We are created for one purpose. That is to be beacons of light, salt of the earth, God glorifiers now and through eternity. When I decide what the best plan for my life is and am unwilling to let it go, I show my self to be proud. I classify myself with those in Jas. 4:13-17.
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.
I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. - Rev. 4:8
I know that my Redeemer lives,
and that in the end he will stand upon the earth.
And after my skin has been destroyed,
yet in my flesh I will see God;
I myself will see him
with my own eyes—I, and not another.
How my heart yearns within me! - Job 19:25-27
If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.
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