Your Calling

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10)

Our Father works personally and purposefully in each one of His children. Each of us is handmade, one-at-a-time, one-of-a-kind. You and I evidence Christ’s workmanship and craftsmanship. We are not mass-produced. We are not clones or spare, interchangeable parts. We are individual components in one infinitely intricate living body of Christ, every component playing its part.

You have been made alive by the Holy Spirit with particular purposes. He places you on location. You live here and now— not anywhere, anytime. You are on call for particular people— not anyone and everyone. The sorrows you face, the happiness you find, these universal experiences take a personal shape.

Your life story, your temperament and temptations, the things you know, your abilities and limitations, your experiences and per­ceptions, the way you think, and feel, and choose... every detail happens in specifics. Nothing happens in general. God's redemp­tion repurposes you, gathering up every experience and characteristic into His purpose for you.

So each day, in each situation, you have the opportunity to do and say constructive things that no other human being could do or say. In the loving hands of God, your life is custom-designed and custom-built. And we will all fit together in the end. Every hand will do its work. Every voice will sing its part.

This is your calling.

D.P.