Do you ever wonder about your calling from God? After getting married and moving to Ohio, as I prayed about transferring to Ashland Theological Seminary and continuing my seminary studies, God reiterated to me what He had previously, to just trust Him. God has made it clear to me that He wants me to be in seminary. However, He has been quiet on how exactly He plans to use me through the seminary education. When I ask, He either keeps quiet or He reiterates, "Just trust Him". As I continue to be faithful to Him through pursuing Him and through pursuing my seminary education more and more completely, I trust that His will for my ministry will become clearer.
Meanwhile, I do feel that each and every day God is working on me, preparing me, and it is as if I am on a raft floating up and down, side to side, and to and fro, sometimes close and sometimes distant, over time slowly (and I mean very slowly) moving toward where God wants me, on shore with solid land (or should I say "Rock") underneath my feet. I don't believe I am in seminary just for the purpose of completing seminary, nor even solely for the purpose of gaining knowledge. However, God wants to utilize this time in seminary to, among other things, help me prepare, and even currently live out, His call for me (in other words, my ministry...or ministries). He wants to shape and mold me. As we grow in God’s character, or take on and develop Christ-like virtues, it will help us to be more effective in our ministry to others, and toward demonstrating to others who God is, ultimately I hope to glorify God and to bring others to Him.
God has created each of us for a purpose, and by knowing our core identity, or who we are in Christ, will help us carry out that purpose. Meanwhile, God has an intended, and somewhat unique, calling for each of us; He is calling us to a particular ministry (or even ministries over our lifetime). Although that calling is not always clear to us, it is clear to our Lord. I see my time at seminary as helping me to better visualize and understand God's will for me.
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