Discovering Your Calling

Michael Horton has written a great article on God's "calling" for your life. I know that this is an old article but the truth in it is long-term. The article is more on getting rid of the mysticism behind the idea of your "calling". It also gives advice and wisdom on how to discern what to do in your life.

Horton tells us that "God does give us the desires of our hearts." It's not as if your calling would be separate from what you really desire to do; however, there might be some cases in which you must sacrifice your desires for bringing the "bacon" home to provide for your family. He continues:

He is not out to get us, or to make us wander the vocational wilderness forever. Sometimes we are "dumped" into short-term vocations which to us seem utterly meaningless and yet in some way providentially equip us with a skill which will be vital in our as yet unknown calling in life. We just cannot figure out God's secret plan, but we can trust it and learn from natural as well as biblical sources how we might better discern our calling.

Growing up I've heard so many people ask "what does God want me to do?" It's almost as if they are sitting around waiting for a mystical bomb to drop on their head. Some actual say that God speaks with a "still, small voice", or that "you will know when the time is right". God revealing His decreetive will to man? Almost sounds like someone with schizophrenia...