What compels you to do what you do…Convenience or Calling? Convenience responds with, “This is what I was trained to do.” Calling responds with, “This is what I was made to do.”
Convenience: Fitting in well with a person’s activities and plans; Comfortable; Easily accessible; Suited or favorable to one’s own needs.
Calling: A personal invitation from God to carry out a unique task; A strong inner impulse prompted by conviction of divine influence.
In his Worship HeartCries blog this week Ed Steele wrote, “He (Jesus) calls us to Himself, first. Before the crowds and calls of ministry, before the confusion and craziness of everyday life, before our attempts of doing, He calls us to Himself. “ Follow the previous link to Worship HeartCries to see Ed’s entire post.
• Convenience is a vocation; Calling is a ministry.
• Convenience is a profession; Calling is a purpose.
• Convenience is in the mean time; Calling is for a lifetime.
• Convenience compares to; Calling is contented by.
• Convenience focuses on withdrawals; Calling focuses on investments.
• Convenience is egoistic; Calling is altruistic.
• Convenience is guarded; Calling is transparent.
• Convenience is independent; Calling is collaborative.
• Convenience is upwardly mobile; Calling is inwardly and outwardly mobile.
• Convenience is an occupation; Calling is a mission.
Philippians 3:13-14
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (NKJV)
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