It’s not the same as a job. Not the same as a career. We don’t go to school, learn our alphabet, contend with geometry, submit to earning a degree in order to fulfill the “call.”
The call is outside the realm of listening and adhering to education. It IS the education. Do we want to learn to be a better parent, caretaker, doctor, engineer… a better person? It is the call that makes this possible.
A complete and total commitment to it.
What have you been called to?
Have you been called to marriage? To parenting? To community? To business? Whatever you believe you’ve been called to (and believe me it is layered)… this is your true educational journey. Different levels of it will happen at different times. For example, if you’re called to leadership, the culmination of this might be birthed out of effectively understanding and fulfilling a parenting role first. Or maybe if you’re called to teaching, it could then be something that leads to writing. How would you better organize your time if this were the case? Would you start writing now or later? As a leader, would you start effectively parenting now or later? Different levels.
If we proceed to the next level of this call without properly attending to the beginning one, we might find ourselves in a bit of a conundrum.
Whatever the call is, we will not be able to properly work out the first layers of it from the top and ultimate level. If we think that we are called to do anything, we must remember, first things first.
Have you been there?
Knowing that you’ve been called to do something and trying to set up shop at the very top level? The call is not an easy process, it insists on being worked out.
“Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads”-Ezekiel 3:8
Can you imagine if Ezekiel had not had the same kind of “resolve” as the people he was speaking to? He would be ill-equipped for the task and probably quitted before even starting. He was equipped simply by being associated with those he was to address. Going through those levels if you will.
If you’ve felt like quitting before even starting, stop a moment, take a look around you, ask and seek, and knock. That thing that is calling for your attention right now might not be urgent, may not look exciting…. but there… sitting, waiting like a steppingstone to get you to the next level, it holds the promise of your future.
Is it worth it?
