Walking in Your Calling

It does little good to walk in someone else’s calling.  When I was twelve years old, I thought God was calling me to be a missionary to Canada.  It was not to be.  It wasn’t my calling. I couldn’t be a Hospital Chaplain, even though Chaplain Joe Luck was one of my teen-age heroes as I recovered in a hospital from a broken neck. When I realized God was calling me to preach, I wanted to be like Billy Graham, but I didn’t even have a North Carolina accent.  It wasn’t my calling.  I was really impressed with the preaching of R.G. Lee, but I could never string together enough adjectives to be like him.  It wasn’t my calling.  I admired my Dad as a model Pastor, but I could never have as many friends as he had.  It wasn’t my calling.  I would have never called myself to be a Seminary Professor, but God did, and so I tried to walk in that calling, amazed anew every day. C.S. Lewis wrote, “To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere,” and Dwight L. Moody reminded us, “If I walk with the world, I can’t walk with God.” Paul wrote, “As the Lord has called each one, so let him walk” (I Corinthians 7:17). Are you walking in your calling today?

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