Dear Friends,

I appreciate you. I appreciate that you are co-laborers for the Kingdom in a cause that is bigger than financial advice and deeper than single conversations with a client and wider than a career path. I believe that, as a member of Kingdom Advisors, you have joined in the work that God is doing in our time to free His people to be true stewards.

Caleb was one member of a team of people who pursued the cause of God for the nation of Israel. He was not a “front man” in the cause (Moses and Joshua held those spots.) However, his willing, eager, and wholehearted participation in the cause of taking the Promised Land for the nation of Israel was un-dimmed, even in his 85th year of life.

Os Guinness wrote one of the premier contemporary works on the topic of calling. His book The Call is a comprehensive and profound examination of both corporate and personal calling in the life of a believer. In his final chapter, he speaks of finishing well and of the often ill timed dance between the end of a life and the close of a call that is bigger than one person. His main point is that there is rarely symmetry in the completion of tasks and the completion of life. 

Therefore, we are reminded that our call is to God, not to any one “thing.” It becomes essential that we accept our place in the Kingdom as one of many, not an end in ourselves. As is so often the case in our life of faith, perspective is critical.

In speaking to the dissonance of calling, Guinness quotes Reinhold Niebuhr who says, “Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.” 

I pray that you will be able to approach your life today with a “Let’s Go!” mindset, trusting that God is accomplishing something much higher than a single task or event through your life.

Blessings,