CALLING

I've been thinking lately about my calling. What is my calling in life? I am primarily called to be a daughter of the King. The primary role the Lord has given me is wife and mother. I praise the Lord that I have been called to be a mother to our two children from Ethiopia. This calling has changed my life and my heart forever. I pray God continues to work on my heart and that I heed any and all callings from Him in this area. I hope the Lord calls us to another adoption. I am so eager to mother our Ethiopian children and teach them of our Lord. I am so thankful for a God who has given very defined roles and expectations. There is no guessing what God requires of me. I pray to want no glory for myself.
My desire in all of my life is to bring glory to my Savior. I write about things I am striving to be and at times where I am struggling. My hearts desire is wanting my life to glorify Christ. I hope in some small way the Lord is magnified in my writings. I hope I am putting into practice what I know to be true. I hope I am encouraging anyone reading to know God's Word better and to live out our faith. I hope to seek to honor Christ. These are all goals I am pressing toward. In no way, shape or form have I perfected anything, but sinfulness. Sanctification is a process begun by the Lord throughout my life. I enjoy writing about my journey with the Lord and the goal I am pressing toward...living out my faith in the Gospel, by the truth of the Word, by a life that seeks to bring honor and glory to my Lord.
Phillipians 3:7-14
7 But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, 9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; 11 in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
12 Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.