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Worth the Risk:
Pursuing Your Spiritual Calling

Don’t be fooled. Everyone has a spiritual calling and pursuing it does NOT mean you must preach and teach in a traditional church environment. A calling is just that, it is a phone call from God to you his child, asking of you, requesting of you, and eventually leading you down a path, on a street, in a city, and throughout a realm of existence from which you do not currently live.

A spiritual calling is always attracted to you while you may not necessarily be attracted to it. A spiritual calling always wants you to embrace and love it while you may not necessarily want to embrace and love the spiritual calling.

A spiritual calling will eventually pursue you while you won’t always pursue it. A spiritual calling is literally any path divinely chosen by God that allows you to grow and learn while positively impacting the lives of others in the process. A spiritual calling is mutually beneficial and can take on every shape, form, look, color, aroma, sound, fashion, and construct imaginable.

A spiritual calling does not always have to reside within the four walls of a church, but instead can reside within the four walls of a nightclub, bathhouse, or even a kindergarten. Yet a spiritual calling may not reside within the four walls of a building at all.

Your spiritual calling may reside on the warm, sunny shores of a beach from dawn to dusk. Or it may reside in a lush countryside between the hours of 12 noon and 4pm. Or your spiritual calling could reside within a 5-city block radius of downtown Chicago.

You may never quote a scripture or even say God’s name, but your actions are what truly count the most. Amazingly, people can acutely see the God in you without you yelling it at them from a pulpit. They can also see the humanity in you by what you do and NOT through what you say.

Pursuing your spiritual calling is truly worth taking the risk. It is indeed worth losing some of your personal relationships and worldly possessions as I have lost both throughout the process. Yet wonderfully, God has a sneaky way of blessing you with far more than what you’ve lost before you even have time to even realize it.
Hence, pursuing your spiritual calling is worth the risk and pursuing the face, voice, and direction of God is most definitely, truly and overwhelmingly worth the risk, over and, over, and over again.