Week 4: Finding God’s Calling for Our Lives Part 2

Myth #3: We eventually get too old for Christian calling. Nope, our callings will change as we age, but there’s always something God has for us to do. I found this helpful about how our lives can be loosely broken into six seasons of callings from Brian Saunders’s book The 6 Seasons of Calling: Discovering Your Purpose in Each Stage of Life:

Myth #4: Our callings should be comfortable for us. This is the one we want to be true, right? We don’t like being uncomfortable but sometimes, God does call us into less-than-ideal callings and we need to learn and grow through those situations. Please note, I’m not saying stick with a job where you are experiencing any kind of abuse, but rather, we at times can find ourselves uncomfortable because we’re learning the job or dealing with an unpleasant colleague.

Myth #5: Choosing the wrong calling can throw us out of God’s will. We don’t need to agonize over every major decision in our lives, including our callings, because we’re so afraid of picking the wrong thing or job. We should prayerfully consider our options but we can’t be too paralyzed from making a choice.

Myth #6: Your calling equals your passion. Popular career advice to high schoolers and college students centers around following their passion. This has led many Christians to believe our calling must be what we are most passionate about—what brings us the most joy and what we’re most naturally gifted to do. While sometimes, your career calling will match what you’re most passionate about, oftentimes, that’s not the case. You might love music but aren’t good enough to be in a band—and that’s okay. You can pursue music as a hobby without it becoming your day job.

Overall, remember that our career or job callings help us fulfill our primary calling as Christians in this fallen world. Consider which of these common myths you believe and course-correct to discover your freedom in Christ to work in this world.

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Sarah Hamaker is a national speaker and award-winning author who loves writing romantic suspense books “where the hero and heroine fall in love while running for their lives.” She’s also a wife, mother of two teenagers and two college students, a therapeutic foster mom, and podcaster (The Romantic Side of Suspense podcast). She coaches writers, speakers and parents with an encouraging and commonsense approach. Visit her online at sarahhamakerfiction.com.