The Importance Of A Divine Calling On My Life

I have a divine calling on my life. It is to convincingly communicate the truth of God to all people. I do not claim the ability to define just how God calls any man or woman, nonetheless, in the very heart of my soul, I hear God’s still, small voice wooing me to commission. I am burdened with the plight of humankind without God. This call was initiated at my conversion and further confirmed through a mission experience in Mexico, during the first eighteen months of confessing Christ as my Lord and Savior. These two experiences compel me to complete a Master of Arts degree at Colorado Christian University (CCU) to better equip myself to share, speak, preach and teach the gospel of my Lord, Jesus Christ. I first heard God calling me at the young age of seventeen. My first seventeen …show more content…
I was baptized and returned to a nightly devotion at the campfire. I felt moved to go to every person, young and old, and hug them and ask for their forgiveness for the joke I had told. I felt God calling me, but I didn’t know to what he was calling me. The second and confirming event of God’s call on my life came a few months later. I found myself attending Platte Valley Bible College in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. I only attended there because I had no other plan for my life, I had started dating a local girl, and I had received a small scholarship in the amount of seven hundred dollars. The money went away quickly and so did the girl, but I was soon to experience something that would forever change my life. While on a mission trip to Mexico, I witnessed an appreciative and loving response to the gospel from the people there. Children living in garbage dumps excitedly pawed at me to get a copy of a Spanish New Testament. They ran off to never be seen again, so I thought. To my surprise, they returned to church services at night and brought with them their parents and siblings. Many of them became