Clarify Your Calling – Week 1

I was a little girl when I first heard God call me by name. It wasn’t an audible voice, but it was a heart thumping conviction that consumed my mind until I had to kneel and confess my need for a Savior.

No matter the age, when God calls His child, it’s a unique experience for the one who is called. I can’t tell you exactly how it happened, or precisely how it felt. I can’t describe the words that entered my mind or the way I was compelled to surrender. But I can tell you this – Jesus called me.

Throughout my life I’ve had various “lump in my throat” moments when I knew the Holy Spirit was speaking to me. In middle school I remember kneeling down after a chapel service in my Christian School. God spoke to me, and in that moment I knew my life’s purpose was to serve God with all my heart through church ministry.

In high school, I travelled on mission trips and heard God tell me to spread the gospel with all my might and strength.

In college, I heard God tell me to wait on His perfect timing and teach my heart out to the children He would place in my classroom.

As a young wife, I listened as God spoke words of love into my new role as a help meet and friend.

When I became a mother, I embraced the call of God on my life to love and nurture the gift of life God placed into my arms.

And over the years I’ve heard God tell me sit, go, talk, be quiet, hold on, rest, love, show compassion, stop, learn, grow, step, wait, calm, be, encourage…

There are so many calls I cannot express every word. I wish I could tell you I’ve leaped at every call and acted quickly in obedience, but I haven’t. There have been long nights when I wrestled with God. I’ve told God every reason why I shouldn’t be the one to do what He has said. I’ve given excuses. I’ve let others take the lead in the name of spirituality even when I felt God’s conviction within my heart. I’ve stepped in when I thought I knew best and taken control of things that God never told me to do. Oh, how I miss it sometimes.

But God is gracious and merciful. And even when I make a mess of the calling He imparts, He uses my human imperfection to refine me and works through the mess in spite of me.

God is calling each of His children. He is calling you.

I don’t know what you feel when God speaks to your heart, but for me it’s heart-thumping, soul-gripping, and mind-boggling truth. Often I hear His voice through His Word, through the silence, through the innocence of a child, or the words of a teacher. However He does it, He speaks. He’s alive. He’s real and He is calling us, every single one.

So what is God saying to you? Is He calling you?

For the next few weeks, we will discuss how to “Clarify Your Calling”. Mine won’t be like yours, and yours won’t be like mine. But if you’re thinking you might be called, you probably are. It might be to tenderly love a child, to honestly listen to a spouse, or to flip a country upside down with the gospel of Jesus, but no matter what it is, it is holy and it is good. God’s call is confident.

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:6(KJV)

Love & Blessings,

Micah

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