Find Your Call

Hi everyone! I've decided to do a series of posts entitled "Find Your Call"

I think a great way - no, make that the best way - to stop fiddling around and make your life count is to stop and ask God what He has called you to do. I firmly believe that God has placed a unique calling on every one of our lives (Eph. 2:10) and we can be the most effective if we walk according to His plan for our destiny.

Let's start with what He has called all of us to do. How about the great commission, that's a good place to start. "Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit..." We are to spread the gospel. If we don't tell people about Jesus, who will?

Okay, that is pretty clear, I think we all understand our calling to bring the good news of Jesus wherever we go. But to what else does God call us? How does He define our role as Christians? Check out James 1:27 "Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." God has a HUGE place in His heart for the fatherless, the poor, needy, helpless. He tells us to be a voice for those who have none. Proverbs 31:8-9 says "You should defend those who cannot help themselves. Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless, and see that they get justice." Micah 6:8 says: "He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with the Lord your God." Social justice is very important to the Lord, and anything that is important to God should be important to us.

So what has God called you to do? What passion has He placed in your heart? What makes you really mad? Is it abortion? Human trafficing (modern-day slavery), child abuse, world hunger or poverty? I encourage you to take some time away from distractions and ask God what specific call He has placed on your life.

Over the next few post I am going to look at some of these issues in depth. I want to give you some of the facts about what is going on, and dig into the scriptures to see what God thinks about it. What you do with this information will be entirely up to you. I hope it will spur you on to further research and you will listen to God's gentle voice, and run to obey His call. That is all He asks of each of us.

God bless you all!
~Brianna