Neela, my daughter, is meant to be a pro tennis player. I mean, you should see her swing a spatula when she plays in the kitchen… I’m just saying the girl has got skills. So this is usually the way we see calling in life, but you need to know that while God may call you to a specific profession or a specific spouse, there is a muchweightier calling on your life if you have placed your faith in Jesus.

We see in Scipture in Ephesians that we are called to be holy and blameless. We see in 2 Corinthians that we are called to be ministers of reconciliation, that as believers who have been reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, we then are extensions of Jesus to everyone we meet. We are called to extend the same grace and mercy, the same reconciliation we have experienced to everyone around us. You see this same idea in the book of Acts right before Jesus ascends into Heaven, his last words, he calls us to be His witnesses to the ends of the earth. He calls us to carry out his mission of reconciling all people to God. This is your calling… this is my calling… it is what we were designed to do… to participate in God’s story of reconciliation and redemption.

Now if you’re like me, you feel the weight of that calling. It can be overhelming to think that way about our calling in life… to the point that we would rather think about our calling in terms of just trying to be a good person, to raise a nice family, to do well at my job… or maybe to even disregard our calling altogether and just sort of go through the motions in life. Because life is busy. There are pressures, there are expectations, there are health problems, and we think “I can’t fulfill this calling. I can’t fulfill a calling to be holy and blameless or to be a minister of reconciliation to others around me. I can barely remember to brush my teeth before I go to bed at night.”

Well, you need to know that you’re right. We can’t fulfill this calling on our lives. We don’t have the charisma, the creativity, the ability, or the energy to live this way. But that is why God does not leave it up to us. Romans 8 tells us that we have the same Holy Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead working in us. The power of the Holy Spirit of God working through us enables us to fulfill this wondrous and weighty calling.