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You don’t have to seek God’s will for your career anymore.
I’m mostly joking, but not entirely. We must always seek God’s will. But what we meant by this for most of our lives is about to change dramatically. It’s not God or his will that’s changing but the world as we’ve known it—and with it, the outmoded way we’ve thought about “career.”
My teenage years brought with them a series of decisions as I wrestled with “What am I going to do with my life?” and “What is God’s will for me?” As with most of us, a huge part of that was calling. For me, it was a calling to ministry. But as many of us have emphasized and reemphasized for the past 30 years, a calling is not just into full-time Christian service but more generally to a vocation. The stakes of figuring out precisely what that calling was were rather fraught because it determined a cascade of other questions: Should you go to college or trade school or enlist in the military or do something else? If college, what major? If trade school, what discipline? If the military, what branch?
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