As Christians, we are all engaged in the business of discerning and obeying Gods call, and this usually means that soon enough we find ourselves out beyond our own competence, frightened at what God demands and feeling cosmically abandoned, left in the lurch with a job for which our own resources are completely inadequateSooner or later, the panic touches each one of us who accepts Gods call and heads, eyes wide open, straight into some difficult and mysterious worklike pastoring a church, teaching a class, going back to school, learning a language, creating a work of art. The panic descends on everyone who accepts Gods call to do something that engages our heart and wracks our soullike making a marriage proper through better and worse, raising a child and letting her go into adulthood, enduring a terrible illness, growing up, growing old. In fact, being called out far beyond our own competence is part of our regular experience with God.
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