R. C. Sproul

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

For example, the wisdom literature of the Old Testament declares that it is better to go to the house of mourning.

And to spend our time with fools.

It's just one more case in point where we see how closely related the God of Scripture is to the reality of suffering and of pain.

And then the first segment together I mentioned this word vocation.

And usually when we use this word vocation, we're referring to our career or to our life's work.

Uh whenever I meet someone the first time I ask them what their name is and where they live, and then inevitably I'll say, What do you do?

I'm inquiring about your vocation.

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.

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