What should we have for dinner? This seemingly innocuous question has probably started more arguments than any other phrase in history. Whether between friends, colleagues, romantic partners, parents and kids, or anyone else that you might share a meal with; there is always a dissenting voice, or worse, someone without an opinion. It brings up this weird innate indecisiveness because when you’re hungry everything sounds good until someone brings up that place you don’t like.
Where should we go? I don’t care you pick.
If I wanted to pick, I wouldn’t have asked you.
How about X? I don’t like X.
How about Y? We just had Y.
Well, what do you want? I’ll know it when I see it!
And on and on this conversation circles around until one person is frustrated and one person is settling. When you have too many options you can feel paralyzed by choice. We can feel this way when we feel called to be active within the body of Christ. If you identify yourself as a Christian, then you have been given this calling. Where we get paralyzed is when we realize that there are a lot of ways that we can serve the Lord.
Instead of spending ages wrestling to find the perfect place you fit, jump in. Paul in Ephesians 4:1-7 says this,
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.
Grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Let us use those gifts decisively in serving the Lord and one another. You have already been called, you are worthy of serving.
Jump in.