{"id":3177,"date":"2022-09-04T06:56:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T11:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2022-09-04T06:56:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T11:56:18","slug":"walking-in-your-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2022\/09\/walking-in-your-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking in Your Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It does little good to walk in someone else\u2019s calling.\u00a0 When I was twelve years old, I thought God was calling me to be a missionary to Canada.\u00a0 It was not to be.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t my calling. I couldn\u2019t 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\u2019t even have a North Carolina accent.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t my calling. \u00a0I was really impressed with the preaching of R.G. Lee, but I could never string together enough adjectives to be like him.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t my calling.\u00a0 I admired my Dad as a model Pastor, but I could never have as many friends as he had.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t my calling.\u00a0 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, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/quote\/1303481?ref=walking-with-god\">To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere,\u201d and Dwight L. Moody reminded us, \u201cIf I walk with the world, I can&#8217;t walk with God.\u201d Paul wrote, \u201cAs the Lord has called each one, so let him walk\u201d (I Corinthians 7:17). Are you walking in your calling today?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/quote\/1303481?ref=walking-with-god\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/quote\/1303481?ref=walking-with-god\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/quote\/1303481?ref=walking-with-god\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 .<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It does little good to walk in someone else\u2019s calling.\u00a0 When I was twelve years old, I thought God was calling me to be a missionary to Canada.\u00a0 It was not to be.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t my calling. I couldn\u2019t be a Hospital Chaplain, even though Chaplain Joe Luck was one of my teen-age heroes as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}