Driven by Eternity With John BevereSample

Living Your Unique Calling

Everyone has a divine calling. Knowing this, and keeping with God’s eternal decisions, there is something very important you must understand: In regard to your calling, you’ll not be judged according to what you did, but according to what you were called to do.

I have met several examples of this throughout my years in ministry. I have a close friend who pastors a thriving church he started in 1991 with twenty-two people. Now there are almost four thousand people attending this church.

As the church grew, they needed a building to meet the needs of the growing congregation. After a number of years, my friend noticed a distinguished, white-haired man regularly attending their services, and he would weep every week. Finally, the man approached one of my friend’s associates.

He shared that in 1981 the Lord gave him a dream, telling him to start a church, and showing him the building in which the church would meet. It was so vivid, in fact, that he had a professional draw a rendition of the building. He worked to establish a church for a while, but stopped because of difficulty. After a few years of traveling ministry, he ended up back in the business world.

He unfolded the picture he had drawn up so many years before and showed it to the associate, who almost went into shock. It was an exact picture of the church my friend now pastored. The man clearly saw God was serious about this assignment, needing someone to faithfully build His house. He knew the Lord had given his assignment to someone else because of his failure.

My friend has since ministered to this man to help bring restoration, as obviously God doesn’t want him to remain broken, but to learn from his mistake. I tell his story here so you may also learn from his mistake.

Each of us has a calling. Some have gone into business who were called into ministry. Some have gone into ministry who were called into business, government, or education. There is no universally right answer to the question of your calling, except that we are all accountable only for our own.

Discover your calling. Then live it to the fullest.