Quotes about Calling

make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that" (Gal. 6: 4 MSG).

God endows us with gifts so we can make him known.

Does Jesus still do it? Does he still use ordinary folks as his witnesses? You bet! The only real question is: Will you witness?

But, Mr. Lucado, I want to be a missionary when I grow up

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.

Sometimes God takes his time: One hundred twenty years to prepare Noah for the flood, eighty years to prepare Moses for his work. God called young David to be king but returned him to the sheep pasture. He called Paul to be an apostle and then isolated him in Arabia for perhaps three years. Jesus was on the earth for three decades before he built anything more than a kitchen table. How long will God take with you? He may take his time. His history is redeemed not in minutes but in lifetimes.

God chose David. On the surface, the choice made no sense. But God doesn't work on sense; He works on grace. God called you, and God called me. He knew what He was doing.

If you'll follow Christ's commands, you'll follow Christ straight to your calling and you'll have developed the strength, grit, and stability along the way to handle it.

I've spent much of my ministry apologizing to people for what appears to be a rather odd show of taste on the part of the One who called me. I have no idea why in this world God has risked His name on someone like me. I will never comprehend such grace and stubbornness of will to teach a woman with a penchant for ditches how to walk a higher path.

We're getting by but getting by, was never our destiny. We were meant to be profoundly effective. Why have we accepted average? Are the few effects most of us see and experience all Christianity has to offer? Is this it? All we can expect? If so, someone out there needs to feel sorry for us.

Those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:30