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We are not called to be holy men and women of God. We are not called to do good works or to love people or any other task you can think of. We are designed to love our Saviour and to empty ourselves out to be filled with Him. We are designed to love Him. We are called to preach the gospel.

"Therefore go and make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the age."
-Matthew 28:19-20

The call is to spread the gospel. We are designed to love God and when we follow our design we will find that all these other things that we think are our call, that we are supposed to focus on completing are actually natural consequences of how we are created. When we love God, we become holy men and women of God. When we love God, we love people. When we love God, we are continually doing "good works". The focus of our lives, the thing we strive for and work towards, our 8-5 full time job is to share the gospel.

We get too focused on being a Christian that we forget our purpose. We aren't supposed to focus on ourselves and our own holiness. We shouldn't sit here for hours or days trying to figure out God's calling on our life or whether or not we are hearing from God or from our own thoughts or from Satan. Yes, these things are important and no I'm not saying we should ignore them completely or that it's sinful to meditate on them. I'm saying we're getting things backwards. We don't focus on ourselves and our own lives and then when we feel like we're fixed or we have it figured out we go out and invest in people. It's the other way around! We go out and invest in people and then find that we know exactly when we hear from God, we don't have to think or concentrate to be holy, and God's call on our life is exactly what we are doing!

The one passion of Paul's life was to proclaim the gospel of God. He welcomed heartbreak, disillusionment, and tribulation for one reason - these things kept him unmovable in his devotion to the gospel of God...Paul was not overly interested in his own character...Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose - to proclaim the gospel of God..."For I wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh."
- Oswald Chambers, Romans 9:3