Dallas Willard Resource Page
Drawing near to God is not the vocation of any individual person.
It is, rather, a spirit or purpose that informs the life of the spiritual pilgrim.
Vocation has to do with the specific type of activity
to which we are in general suited and called...
"Called" has to do with the confluence of God's government in our activities,
so that the effect is larger than the effect of mere human effort.
"Suited" covers both our natural endowments, our contingent history, and our interests.
In the light of these we step forward in life
toward what we believe would be a good work,
and look for the guidance and co-operation of a benign power
greater than ourselves as we proceed.
It will not be written in the sky,
for one of the greatest moral faculties to be developed is faith,
which provides the foundation for humility
through the absence of a certainty that promotes arrogance.
Faith then works love and by love.