I am coming to believe that I will never "arrive". That I will never get to the place where I realize that I have found the job or task I was created for.
I say this as I embark on taking a full time job in ministry (this even sounds crazy because we are all full time ministers, I will just be getting paid for it I guess).
In the past I have thought that something like this would be the destination. That I could sit back and say, "This is what God created me for!" But I just don't think that's true.
We were not created for a task, or for a job, we were created for God. To be his possession, his object of love and affection, his precious child.
I am coming to believe that this is the journey. It's a journey into him, a journey into closeness and openness to him in all of our life, a journey into pure love for him and others.
It's a journey where our identity becomes less and less about the things we do, and more and more just about being our Abba's child.
There will be things that we do, jobs, tasks if you will, things that God created us specifically to do, things that no one else can do... but they are part of us reaching the goal of God, of complete unity with the Spirit in our hearts, of being found only in Christ.
So, I will never be there. Not in this life. God is an infinite sea and I will spend eternity exploring it. As close as I come, there will always be more. His love is beyond all comprehension... as well as his goodness, power, justice, grace and mercy.
So hears to the journey! We will be on it for the rest of our lives... what a grand adventure!
Peace.
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