God’s Will and Your Vocation
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What is the significance of discovering your vocation?
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?
It's important to have a sense of purpose, isn't it? We all want to accomplish something in life, and when it comes to our work, we feel the pressure to choose the right career path. But for Christians, there's an added component. Is our work pleasing to God? And as R.C. Sproul was just asking, is my vocation contributing to the well-being of others? Today on this Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind, Dr. Sproul will point out that there is a difference between merely working and working in our vocation. Before we get to today's message, I do want to remind our Texas listeners about Renewing Your Mind Live in Houston. That's right, the studio is going on the road again this year. So if you're in the area, be sure to register for this event on the evening of March 17.
Our guest teacher will be Joel Beakey, and you'll have the opportunity to gather with other Renewing Your Mind listeners for a night of teaching, giveaways, Renewing Your Mind swag, and much more. Plus, every attendee receives a $20 voucher for the Ligonier.org online store.
How does our vocation contribute to the well-being of humanity?
I'd love to greet you, so be sure to register today at renewingyourmind.org slash Houston, and I hope to have more cities to announce soon. But when it comes to finding our calling, our vocation, Scripture provides us with guidelines to help. Here's R.C. Sproul to work through some of them today.
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. If prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith, or ministry, let us use it in our ministering. He who teaches in teaching, he who exhorts in exhortation, he who gives with liberality, he who leads with diligence, he who shows mercy with cheerfulness." I think the first thing we need to see about this list of gifts that Paul gives here in Romans, which is not dissimilar from what he expounds in 1 Corinthians, I think the first thing we should see is that this list is not exhaustive, but it's representative. It's kind of for example. And the metaphor that he uses here for the church, as he does in 1 Corinthians, is that the church is one body, and that that one body has many members, and that there are various functions that are given to people within the church.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the significance of discovering your vocation?
0:00–1:38
2
How does our vocation contribute to the well-being of humanity?
1:38–7:14
3
What guidelines does Scripture provide for finding our calling?
7:14–13:27
4
How can we discern if our work is pleasing to God?
13:27–14:45
5
What role do our gifts and abilities play in our vocation?
14:45–26:13