Sometimes I think we fail to take seriously that the Infinite mystery of this universe has chosen to provide us the gift of Scripture as a means by which God can speak to us. All the arguments about inerrancy and higher biblical criticism do not have to be resolved to accept that the Scriptures are God’s gift to us by which the infinite can speak to the finite.
Think what this means for your sense of call. While God can and often does speak to us through many mediums and experiences, the Scriptures are God’s gift by which God has frequently chosen to speak.
So here is one means by which we can open ourselves to that possibility. Take time to pause from your work. Sit quietly in a place where you are unlikely to be disturbed. Then having calmed yourself, allow the biblical stories to flow through your minds until one seems particularly to stand out for you. Find that story and reread it so that you have the basic content in mind.
Now assume that that story does contain a message from God to you about the current context of your call. Play with the story or passage with that assumption in mind. Take a piece of paper and write for at least 15 minutes about that story and your ministry. This is not magic or fantasy but it does allow for the possibility that God has been working on our unconscious and this may be a way of helping us surface those thoughts and bringing new insight into what is taking place in our lives. Don’t worry if no great insights occur the first time or so, but allow the interraction between biblical stories and your life to speak to you.
If you would do this occasionally, I think it would allow you to take the pulse of where you are in ministry and how God seeks to speak to you.
