Answering God's call is a lot more than being called a Pastor, in fact, we'd be trivializing it if we've left it at that. It goes beyond the office of the Pastor. God's call goes beyond that picture; it encompasses a lot in our lives and in the lives of those around us. Answering God's call is service to God and to humanity and through service to humanity we serve God. Loving your neighbor as you love yourself, which can only be born out of love for God, through God and by God i.e. the love of God dwelling in you is what makes you love God and love humanity by God's love in you and your love for him. It starts out with understanding and realization that He loves us and gave Himself for us and then accepting Him into our lives, this is when His love come to dwell in us as He dwells in us, and we going about every day, manifesting our reality —that which is indwelling, we manifest God, we manifest His love, because He now dwells in us.
Sometimes we drift for many different reasons, this is the one of the periods of testing and trials and temptations, we sometimes fall or fail. It is a good thing to overcome during trials but then the real evil is not in falling/failing but in remaining fallen/failed. If you stumble or/an fall, don't stop keep moving; if you stumble, rearrange yourself and keep moving, if you fall, pick yourself up and keep moving — focusing on God. You have learnt something new, identify it and hold on to it. That is what they —trials and temptations, are there for, no to destroy us but to build us up. After every session in school, we are supposed to write tests and exams right? Being a child of God is more of God coming straight from our hearts and through our understanding rather that just going by the book (2 Co 3:6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life).
