You Were Made to Worship God

“Listen, Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength."
Deuteronomy 6:4-5

Like many Christian students, I was consumed with the question, “What is God’s call for my life?”  I worried, wondered, and prayed about what college God wanted me to attend; what job God wanted me to do.  Those questions consumed me for years.  If I failed in employment and preparation I would be a failure and disappointment to God.  I believed that my career was THE most important aspect of my life.  I was wrong.
I spent those years with unnecessary stress.  My employment, my education are not the most important aspects of my life as a follower of Christ.  I was not called to a job.  I was not called to a degree.  I was called to submit to the King and love Him.

Israel was taught the prayer in Deuteronomy 6 that is known as Sh’ma (שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל‎), or Hear.  Jesus quoted the sh’ma when He was asked what the greatest commandment was.  From the start, God commands us to love Him.  To worship Him.  I was so consumed with what I was going to do for employment that I had forgotten that I was called to worship God.  That is God’s call on our life.  His call is for me to worship Him with my life.

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