Jeremiah 29:11 was a verse I focused a lot on when graduating high school which is basically about God having a plan for our life, and this is still one of my favorite verses.
Being in college now, the pressure of what we are going to do with our life is great. Though I am lucky to have chosen a major in studio art instead of starting undeclared, I have not been free from doubts as to whether I am where God calls me to be and the insecurities along with that. But what I did not realize was that this is not important as far as God's calling goes.
Today, I got to hear from an amazing speaker at Intervarsity's Women's Conference. In her message she spoke of His calling simply being a divine invitation to embrace the salvation of God. Now I wasn't exactly expecting that because I had embraced this salvation at a young age and I thought we were going to talk more about how to know what we are supposed to be doing with our life. But that is not what His call is about. His call is for us to simply follow Him. These other things that we do are simply spiritual gifts to help in living for Him.
This semester, with winter conference, women's conference and my awesome small group in which we've been studying The Gospel-centered Life, I have seen my faith in God growing and I realized today just how much He's been calling me to truly follow Him in my life and how many times I don't answer this call or just don't recognize the call. She also said we are to focus on the caller not the calling. I know now that I can't complete the calling unless I grow to know him more each day which isn't always easy with the distractions in our life.
A verse that the speaker gave today that sums up what I have learned in just this past month is 2 Timothy 1:8-9
8 So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God. 9 He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time
Going back to Jeremiah, in verses12-14 I now see in that passage what I hadn't focused on before and that is we are to seek Him and listen so that he can restore our lives and then we can share this gospel with others.
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also whoever happens to read this check out this song..it was playing on pandora as I wrote this. Hadn't heard it before but I love the lyrics!:)
~p.s. just trying out this blog which will probably be a combination of random things and we shall see how long it lasts
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