Vocation: A Sure Calling

Thursday  around lunchtime  Mystie

For the last several months I have been sure, certain, that Matt’s calling was to law enforcement. He is suited to it; his integrity, his personality, his determination all worked to make it a fit career. Of course, he also looks stunning in uniform. As he progressed in academy, I watched him take on the persona of a police officer and I swallowed a little nervousness but also felt confirmed that this is where he was supposed to be and what he was supposed to be doing.

God always works on many levels. He does have only one purpose in everything He does, but that one purpose works itself out in a complexity of tiny interwoven threads. You can’t point to one thing and say, “Ah, that is what God was doing in that situation.” His most important work is often most subtle.

His one purpose of course is to work salvation in His people as He sees fit for His own glory. Anything else is merely a detail on that plan. He is telling a story about Himself. That’s all that matters, and that’s where all paths lead. Living in a way that pleases Him and living in a way that reflects the point of the story is the only certain calling we have received.

To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Then Kennewick PD fired Matt. The law enforcement door is shut. Matt took a job yesterday as a computer programmer once more; though it is for a small company this time, it is still a contract with the DOE. In less than two weeks his world is shaken. Just as we were on the brink of beginning a new life, we’re now back to the normal world of 8-5, Monday-Friday. Just as Matt was getting excited about hitting the streets, he was escorted out the door without warning and without recourse.

‘Tis time to cling to what is certain.

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.

Matt has walked worthy of his sure calling and has maintained his honor and integrity throughout. His vocation has changed once more, but his calling is certain.

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