Well, God gives each of us a different blend of skills and inclinations, certain instincts,

mental capacities, emotional strengths, tastes, etc.

So how do I know what role I'm supposed to play with my own set of gifts?

It's a perennial question, and today comes from a college student named Sandra.

Pastor John, hello, my name is Sandra, a junior at Ohio State University.

Thank you for this podcast and for your eagerness to hear from college students.

I have been saved for about a decade, and I love Christ.

In books I read and in conferences I attend, it seems more and more that I am being told

to understand God's calling over me and my life.

And I would sure love to know it, but I struggle here.

Maybe I will go into business, maybe a mom caring for a home, maybe even a missionary.

It would be helpful to know what God has for me, but I don't even know where to begin

this process other than to pray.

How can I discover God's calling over my life, Pastor John?

Where do I even begin?

The question will never grow old, because generation after generation must answer it.

And it is rarely easy to answer.

So thank you, Sandra, for the chance to dig back into some of these great biblical truths.

In fact, I find myself praying here at the front end of this question that God would use

it to make hundreds of people find his precise, glorious, wonderful service.

Now it may be obvious to you, but I'm sure it's not to everyone, so I'm going to distinguish

three kinds of calling.

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