"If you want to walk on water, you've got to get out of the boat" - Chapter 3

Chapter 3 is titled Discerning the Call.

My favourite quote was "it is wrong, it is sin, to accept or remain in a position that you know is a mismatch for you". It's bold, but I somewhat agree. It makes me scared too, because I haven't really determined what God's ultimate goal for me is. So what if everything that I'm doing right now, is a mismatch. But luckily the author also says "discernment honors previous decisions and commitments". Which basically means that God's ultimate goal for me, will take into consideration all my experience and all the skills gained from what I'm doing now.

We also have a big barrier here when discerning the call. Maybe it's due to how we're being raised up, we always view ourselves higher than what we're worth. Socially, we always complement each other, so we're enlarging everyone's heads slowly by slowly. So we have all these people who refuse to admit to weaknesses. This will lead to a "mismatch" will it not?

"A calling is something you discover" and "Our calling is not so much choosing as it is listening". Another common trap. We always choose to do ministry that brings the most "fun", like youth ministry, or music ministry. But if we don't listen, we might end up like Jonah. So we must work hard at trying to discover what our calling actually is.

"We're not called to work for God. We are called to work with God." Great, great quote. I have experienced how much easier it is to work with God rather than handling it myself and then submitting the final product to God.

Therefore we must discover, with discernment, what God wants us to do.