Do you remember when you were a kid what you wanted to be when you grew up. A princess, an astronaut, a police officer? Well as we got older sometimes those things changed, you wanted to be a vet, or a doctor. When you get to the point where you really have to consider a life choice of what you want to do with basically the rest of your life, it’s scary and its hard. But have you ever had the moment when you felt you were called to be something special?
Well I’ll tell you a little about my calling. I really felt it within me when I was in sixth grade. It was when I was sitting in my youth room with a bunch of people around me, and we were listening to a college speak about their majors in ministry. It was at that moment that I remember saying to myself that I saw myself going into ministry. Now trust me, you might be thinking wow she really knows what she wanted to do. But I didn’t, I thought for a really long time that ministry was going to be my thing, and where I was going to go with the rest of my life. But shortly into my senior year of high school. I started to question a lot.
It was right after I had applied to the school of my dreams, toured there too many times to count, and really got involved with the next step of my life. There were many times within those years that it had slipped my mind that maybe ministry wasn’t my thing. But I can clearly remember the day I thought for sure I wasn’t going to make it. It had been a really long day, and all I could think about was how I was going into the world soon, and maybe the choices I had made weren’t the right ones. I was questioning just about everything. After a long talk with a director, she told me I needed to do what was going to make me happy, and only I could figure it out. Well the minute I was going to tell someone about my change of thought, I had this moment of realization that I wasn’t supposed to.
From that day forward, I’ve questioned it, sometimes, but I have followed that calling into ministry. And now almost a year and half later I can say that after all of the things I have gotten to experience and do; my calling is where I am headed. Now, for me, I just got really lucky and was able to realize my calling at a young age. But for others it doesn’t happen until a few years in college, or even down the line after they have already been in a profession for some time. I can’t express how neat it is to follow your calling. So my advice for you, if you know what it is or have any sense of what it could be. Answer your call.
