Vocation

To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power (2 Thessalonians 1:11)

Growing up, there are a series of questions that we are asked repeatedly. What’s your favorite color? How old are you? Those are great. However, the worst question remains: what do you want to be when you grow up? From the age of four to up until the age of twenty-one - the prime stage of growth in your life - you will be asked that very same question countless times. Your answer could change a thousand times, but whatever it is is what’s expected to be your vocation. 

During this period of development, no one should honestly ask you what you want to be when you grow up. What you want to be should be far from your mind. Questions like that make it seem as if we are in control of our destiny and that everything we do is within our reach - not to say that it isn’t, but that it’s a lot more complicated than that. We have to factor socioeconomic, education, race and a lot of other standards when truly deciding vocation in this world. 

So when asked, as a child of Yahweh, the answer to the question “what do you want to be when you grow up?” the answer is deceptively simple: whatever Yahweh wants you to be. 

That answer gives you a wide margin for success instead of a wide margin for error, because any walk with Yeshua is a victory. He made you who you are and created plans for you well before you were born (Jeremiah 29:11), giving you gifts along the way for a reason (Ephesians 2:10). Therefore, wouldn’t listening to Him be inherently and logically simpler? 

The story of Jonas is the proof of why no one should ever run away from Him or  His vocation (Psalm 139: 7 - 10). A quick debrief is that Jonas was told by the Lord to go to Nineveh, but refused to go for multiple dubious reasons. He ran away, but Yahweh brought him back to where he was supposed to be (Jonas 1:1 - 3:10). The Father will always want you to come back to the road that He made for you even if you took the scenic route. 

Look for what Yahweh has planned for you in your life. If he tells you to become a doctor, go into that and you will never see defeat as long as you stay in His principles. The same concept applies to if you enter His service, become a mechanic, work in the army or any other vocation / profession that you take on in your life. Yahweh never made you to be a fail, but a matter of fact, to be successful in your enterprises through His Word and His commandments. Everything is possible to whoever believes in the Lord and practices what He preaches.