R. C. Sproul

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Renewing Your Mind · Suffering: A Divine Vocation · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

We have vocational tests, we have vocational school.

So this word is a very important part of our vocabulary.

But its root meaning, its classical meaning, is taken from the Latin word that means to call.

And the idea earlier on in our history, when we understood that God calls people into various tasks and various occupations, He doesn't just call people into the ordained ministry, to clergy, and so on, but He calls people to be physicians, He calls people to be involved in jurisprudence, He calls people into productive enterprises of business and so on.

That this idea of vocation has to do

With the fact that we are confident that as the Lord of history and as the Lord of all of life, God places his call upon people.

to perform certain tasks.

But we don't usually think

Of suffering

Or of dying.

as a vocation.

I haven't seen any vocational schools that give a diploma in suffering or uh or a place where you can go and study how to die.

And yet, if I understand what Scripture is teaching about the nature of suffering and about the nature of death, I think that it is safe for us to see that there are times in a person's life where the call of God upon that person may not be to banking or to being a doctor or to being a minister or whatever, but the call of God on the person's life for that person.

Portion of their life.

that may sound

Far out to you and radical.

So what I'd like to do in the rest of this segment is to show you something of the history of God's activity with people.

By looking again at persons who

Whom we know God called to suffer.

Anytime we even talk about suffering, usually the first name that comes to mind from biblical history is the name of and I know this is gonna look funny up here underneath this word vocation, it's the name Job.

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