How to Cultivate a Life that Is More Responsive to God’s Call

*Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish.*

Jonah 1:3

Jonah avoided a God-centred life. He had planned where he wanted to live and what he wanted to do, and when God disrupted his plan, he quit.

If your plan becomes more important than God’s plan, you cannot live a God-centred life. What if God calls you to a different life for the sake of people who need to hear the Gospel? Here is how you can live a God-centred life:

1. Recognise what you are doing now is only for a time
The world wants you to believe that everything is secure and permanent. But your home, your work, and the people you love are yours only for a time. Hold lightly to what you are doing now. It will not be forever.

2. Keep your dreams on the altar of God
God is free at any time to disturb your dreams and to give you a new calling. While God planned for you to be here today, He may have you doing something you never imagined a year from now.

3. Practise making yourself available to God
The more comfortable you are in life, the more difficult it will be for you to obey God’s call. Keep your heart in a place where you can say, “If there’s something else You want me to do, Lord, I’m ready and willing to do it.”

Have you ever asked God if He wants you in cross-cultural ministry? Have you asked how you can be most useful to Him? Or is it all about you? Practise making yourself available to God.