Your Calling is Part of Your Salvation

God calls us into his plans for our lives.Your calling is a gift from God. He doesn't call a few select saints to serve him. God first saves us and then calls us to this holy work. We had nothing to do with it. It was all his idea, a gift prepared for us in Jesus long before we knew anything about it” This means ordinary people with children and jobs and mortgages and  full calendars, people just like you and me — are called to be ministers from God.

Galatians 1:10-20

For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bond servant of Christ.  But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ. For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days. But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord's brother.  (Now concerning the things which I write to you, indeed, before God, I do not lie.

The Bible teaches that every Christian is:

• Created for ministry (Ephesians 2:10)
• Saved for ministry (2 Timothy 1:9)
• Called into ministry (1 Peter 2:9-10)
• Gifted for ministry (1 Peter 4:10)
• Authorized for ministry (Matthew 28:18–20)
• Commanded to minister (Matthew 20:26–28)
• Prepared for ministry (Ephesians 4:11–12)
• Needed for ministry (1 Corinthians 12:27)
• Accountable for and rewarded according to his or her ministry (Colossians 3:23–24)