R.C. Sproul

That is, what we do so deeply affects what we are that we ought to make every effort possible to match what we do with who we are.

Have you discovered your calling, your vocation?

Everybody is given a task to perform not only for their own well-being, not only for their private profit, but for the well-being of mankind.

And when we're considering a vocation, we want to ask ourselves the question, how does my vocation contribute to the well-being of humanity?

How do you know that the work you're engaged in, in terms of your life's work, is where God wants you to be and where you ought to be and whether you fit in that role?

And we can try to answer that with magic, Ouija boards, horoscopes, and all kinds of mysterious means as that, or we can do as the New Testament enjoins us to do, to think soberly about our gifts and our abilities.

And I had been looking with you at chapter 12 of Romans, beginning at verse 2.

Do not be conformed to this world.

but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."

I think we've heard that phrase before.

By the renewing of your mind.

Why?

That you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

What we're trying to do here is to come to a clear evidence and attestation of the will of God.

And we need renewed minds and the transformation of the Word of God.

And the context of this is that we ought not to be mimicking the secular world out of a kind of conformity to the patterns of the secular world in seeking to prove what is the will of God.

And it's again in this context that Paul goes on in verse 3, "...for I say through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.

For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we being many are one body in Christ."

and individually members of one another, having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us.

Let us use them.