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Success in your calling
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always remember the first time I decided to buy a car. It was an exciting time for a 24 year old single girl in a big city, 6
months into a job with a promising future in an international company. As I searched far and wide for what I could afford to
buy, one conversation I am sure I did not have with the Toyota Levin I settled for was the following, “my dear owner, now
that you have bought me, all road trips will be done my way. You will wash me daily, you will not take me to rough roads, when my
engine is cold, you will not put me on idle run until I get warm…” Clearly, that would have been an interesting conversation but not
one that would have left me sane. As with all of us, by the time I decided on that car, I had determined what you I wanted to use it
for. If you want a car for carrying farm produce, you will not shop at a sports car showroom. If you want an earthmover, you will go
to the respective dealers.
In the same way, once you accept that you are called for a purpose, you will with humility, face the Lord with only three words,
“Here I am.” God does not have to explain Himself to you, His vessel. Once you accept the call, you are also accepting all that is
coming your way.
Your calling is not your job. Let’s just get that straight up. It is bigger than your job, business or company. Being a CEO is not a
calling as much being a sweeper is not a calling. Calling is what you do no matter what your financial statements are screaming at
you. It is what you do even though people are ready to commit you to a mental institution because they can’t understand it. Your
calling is what looks so scary and illogical before you jump into it and once you are in there you wonder what ever took you so long
to get started. Calling is what God designed you to accomplish in this sphere of time before you go back to Him for eternity.
Our case study friend, Jonah did not fully grasp the intensity of the mission he had accepted more out of ignorance of his role as a
prophet than anything else. As a result of his ignorance he had to be taken to LOVE 101 class by God Himself.
There are many ways of analyzing what makes up success in your calling and we cannot exhaustively capture all in this chapter but
graciously, we will cover seven key pointers.
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