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======My Calling 3 - Experiences with calling ...======
Thursday, April 15, 2010. When we talk about calling and God's way with us,
it is often helpful to talk about particular examples. Today I will start with
myself and look into my own calling.
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**Profession**
I am a physicist and mathematician by training, I have studied both subjects and,
in addition, did a lot of philosophy. God gave me some mathematical gift and also
the gift to bring theory and applications together, to work in different
environments, academic, business and administrative. Today, I work for a federal
ministry in Germany as a leading scientist in their research and development
section. We incorporate millions of measurements from satellite data, radar stations, airplanes, ships and meteorological stations into high-performance code
simulating the earth's atmosphere and generating weather and climate forecast.
It is a big research task, a big service task
and important for large and crucial parts of our everyday life like airlines
or logistic enterprises, but also our personal planning of clothing and transport.
I can say that I feel some clear calling into research, and also some calling
to develop research in a social environment where it is important for us humans,
where it has large impact and where everything comes together. This calling has
been confirmed on many levels, though my personal path has not been very simple.
I became a university teacher, but did not get a position in Germany, but got
a nice job in the UK. We moved to England, but my wife could
not work there. So after some years we moved back, all that with three kids. But
still the calling is clear. I have the talent to be quick in research and
development, to have ideas, to work them out and get them published, to work with
other researchers, with PhD students and colleagues. Clearly, not everything
is perfect and I have my weaknesses. But the calling is clear and step by step
the Lord opened opportunities.
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**Faith Life**
Since I came to faith in Jesus Christ, I have been active in communicating the
gospel. From the very beginning, God gave me a background where I knew all the
questions and doubts. I have been living in a secular world thinking secular
thoughts for quite a while. But I discovered Christ and I am more fascinated
by the Lord in father, son and holy spirit every day.
God gave me a calling to work on conversations about the gospel. I am not called
to be a pastor, though I have been working as elder and other responsible positions
for our churches. But I am called to write and talk about the Lord, to pick up
the questions and to try to offer answers as far as I understand them. God has
called me to do that, and then people came who wanted to use my texts. We started
small years ago with the internet activities, and it grew and grew, with more than
a million page views on the texts just over the past 12 month. I see
this as one building
block in the confirmation of the call. When you are called by the Lord, you try
to follow and then see whether your understanding of his guidance was correct.
God's calling is not something static, but highly dynamic. You need to move to
see it develop. You need to follow it, to find out more. You need to be open
where he leads you next - it might be unexpected, but he will put things together
in the end. His calling is one of the most fascinating thing of this world,
coming right after the Lord himself. He takes us into his purpose,
into his eternal goals!
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