Your Vocation Is Not Your Identity

#37: You know how you go to a social gathering and you’re meeting someone you’ve never met before and they ask, “so what do you do?”

The general reply is that I am dot, dot, dot you fill in the blank. The thing is the person is asking us “what do you DO” and we respond, “I AM.”

It would seem that we wrap our identity in our vocation and rightly so I mean we spend the majority of our time at some type of work.

On this episode we are going to explore how we are not our vocation.

Let's go to the show.

Key Take-aways:

• 2:05 - introduction to vocation
• 3:45 - how vocation has been a chew toy for me
• 5:45 - God is our source
• 6:38 - serving God vs. serving people
• 6:55 - being good at something doesn't mean you have to do it forever
• 7:15 - an example of removing something I counted as a source in exchange for God as my source
• 10:00 - God uses everything in our lives
• 10:20 - when your vocation is taken away
• 11:30 - being vs doing
• 13:36 - wrap up

Resources:

• Mary Marantz Instagram Post
• Loop for Women by Jennifer Camp
• The Next Right Thing Podcast
• Spirit Led Life Gear
• The Beauty In Letting Go by Angee Wiser Robertson



Heavenly Position Guidance Challenge:

For this week’s Heavenly Position System Challenge, I’m going to challenge you to do the same. Take out your journal and find a quiet place if possible. Read Ephesians chapters 1 - 2 and then write down everything those chapters say that you are. There is no right or wrong here. I would challenge you to take 30 minutes for this exercise so you can marinate on what you are reading. Ask Holy Spirit to point out to you how God sees you in these verses.

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