When God calls you, it will be to serve His purposes in you – to do His will. Whatever that will is at the moment, we are called to humble ourselves in His presence and cast away anything like pride or the dictates of the present social order. God must be the epicenter of our focus.
It requires our total trust in Him, regardless of what out human logic wants to impose. Trust is faith, and faith brings the peace and joy of the Holy Spirit, as we begin the journey of our transcendent path of spiritual realization. We are becoming what we were originally conceived for.
God shows you the direction, equips you for the task, you perform that task to the best of you ability, and you leave the outcome to Him. Moreover, those outcomes are faith-builders. When we make the decisions to be part of this process, we gather the strength to subjugate our flesh to the Spirit, whereupon we begin freeing ourselves of the knee-jerk reactions of the mind and its preoccupation with the world.
God’s calling will necessitate the shedding of our old self to become a new person in Christ. (Eph. 4:17 – 24). Thankfully, He continually helps us with that:
And we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into His image from [one degree of] glory to [even more] glory, which comes from the Lord [who is] the Spirit. 2 Cor. 3:18 AMP
To answer God’s call then, takes rigorous self-examination with regards to one’s alignment with His word, so that he or she are in a state of preparedness And when we rest in God’s will, we come to know the goodness that He implanted within in us, and can subsequently tap into it to bring forth the fruits of our calling. We radiate His image, and our lives are grander for it.
God trains you for your calling, and some of that ‘training’ can be painful. It may even feel punitive, but it’s not. He is coaching you, developing your spiritual integrity and fortitude by removing layer after layer of worldly pollution.
When we are called, we will encounter obstacles, because our adversary tries to thwart out efforts. Yet God would not call us to strive for something that we could not do (because He backs us up). Our successes in Him builds our faith in our ability to be used by Him for each ensuing task upon our path.
When we answer the call of servitude, we are one with God and simultaneously set free from the world, and from the leash that it has tried to strangle us with. It is a joyful state as we come to realize that our calling also includes one that will culminate in His eternal presence through the grace of our Blessed Savior…
Goodnight and God bless.