Thursday, September 29, 2016

TIM

Good morning. I’m Tim Wise, Sanctuary Choir Director at Central.

Usually when you meet someone for the first time, you tend to ask questions like “What do you for a living?” or “Where do you work?” Usually some kind of answer comes like, “I’m a lawyer,” or “I teach,” or “I am a bank teller…” and so on.

Work for many of us defines our life and takes up so many of our waking hours that it gives us our identity.

Os Guinness in his book, “The Call,” reverses that thinking, and he states that our calling should precede our job and career choice. “Instead of, “You are what you do,” calling says: “Do what you are.”

Your call may not be as clearly made known to you like Moses’ from God in the burning bush, but when we discover it, we can’t run away from it either, or we may end up like Jonah inside the belly of a giant fish.

I want to encourage you to think about what you are, and are you doing what God has called you to do?  Are you being what God has called you to be? It is never too late to fulfill your call.