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I'll bet you
couldn't count the times that a grown-up asked you, "What do you want
to be when you grow up?"
It isn't always easy to have a good
answer for that question, but you are never too young to begin to
think about your future. Through the years, you may change your mind
about the kind of work you want to do when you get out
 of
school, but by the time you are in Junior High, it is important to
have something very definite in mind and then prepare for it.
I'm sorry to say that I have talked to
many young people who are seniors In high school, and even some
students who are attending Junior College,
 and
they still don't know what preparation they should make when they have
to earn a living for themselves. When they get out into the "real
world", they will have a big problem adjusting from childhood to
becoming a happy, responsible adult. If possible. I would like to help
you avoid being undecided about YOUR future.
By the time you are out of school, you
should be able to enter the business world or be ready to work at a
special trade such as, electrician, plumber, painter, etc.. The
classes you choose when you get into Junior High and High School
should be chosen very carefully so that you will have the proper tools
with which you can prepare for your adult life. Your education may be
continued in college, but not all students need to attend or can
afford college ... it depends upon what type of work or profession you
make as your AVOCATION.
The word AVOCATION describes what your
occupation or regular employment will be when you get out of school.
Another big word you can add to your
vocabulary is the word VOCATION. VOCATION is what a person does in
order to earn a living in the business world or the trade world.
Those two words tell us what is
expected of us by other people, which is your vocation; and your
avocation is to perform God's purpose for your life here on earth.
If you have believed in Jesus Christ as your Saviour, God says your
avocation is to be His AMBASSADOR. An AMBASSADOR is a person who is
sent
 on
a special mission to other people for the purpose of making an
agreement between them and the one whom that person represents. As a
Christian, you represent Jesus Christ, and you are to be an ambassador
for Him.
Jesus Christ is God and man in one
person forever. He became a man so that He could die on the cross as
our substitute for sin. When Jesus did that. He made it possible for a
man to have eternal life by believing that message of salvation.
The apostle Paul tells us in 2
Corinthians 5:17-21 that Jesus Christ reconciled the world unto
Himself when He paid the penalty for all sins, and that He has made
each believer an AMBASSADOR for Him. The more you get to know the Lord
Jesus Christ as He is revealed in the Bible, the better you will be
able to represent Him as His AMBASSADOR to those who do not know Him
as their own Saviour.
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