What are you supposed to do with your life? I’m studying in Acts lately. Toward the end of Paul’s ministry, he was assaulted by “the Jews” at the Temple and hauled off on mistaken charges to be tried. Paul bounced around a little from one governmental authority to another and would up on the Mediterranean coast at the palace of the Roman chief administrator of the area. He could have been set free first if he would have slipped some coins to the one consul or just let the next one decide. But God told Paul that his next ministry was in Rome. Paul evidently figured the easiest way to Rome was to get a trip on the Roman government where he could appeal his case to the Caesar.
The meditation guide I’m using now has a series of meditations on figuring out what you (I) am to do with our lives. What’s your talent? Do you listen to the urgings of God who will guide you?
Mostly what I do both as a vocation and ministry is write and teach. So the proddings I get from the Spirit are to continually look for outlets for those things I do. Jesus was alway perceptive into the people he met. He picked people with strengths that sometimes they didn’t know they had and encouraged them to go and do those things. Some couldn’t make the commitment and went away sad.
Let’s not go away sad. What is it that you can do? What is it that God is calling you to do–or where is He calling you to go? Go and Do.
Gary Mintchell
Tags: Christianity, lifestyle, mission
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