God gave you birth for your vocation.

John, Andrew, Peter, Philip, Nathanael (or Bartholomew) – these are the first fortunate ones called to follow Jesus.

And everyone is called. Above all, everyone is called by God to take their appropriate place in the world: as a husband, a wife, a father, a mother, a clerk, a worker – it is all a question of vocation; it is a call from God.
There are as many as thirty-three thousand different vocations. God determines our work through such or other interests, hobbies, and abilities, through such or other health and material conditions. God honors some people with a particularly noble vocation: priestly or religious: He speaks to them as to Nathanael: “You shall see greater things than these… You shall see heaven open.” The Son of God was also called to his work of salvation.

God had our vocation even before we were born; more than that, He gave us birth for that reason – for the sake of the work and the plan to be carried out on earth. We have free will – it is up to God and us whether we open ourselves to the treasures God wants to bestow on us.

There are more or less noble vocations, more or less complicated; one thing is sure: fields are not accessible. God is not satisfied with cheap effects; every work is a path to heights. We often hear: that God asks hard things of me: sacrifice, faithfulness, forgiveness, perseverance in adversity, patience in sickness. But let us realize: The Lord Jesus does not speak to his called ones: “Go!” but says: “Follow me.”

When He calls a man, Christ goes before him, shows and shows the way, strengthens by His presence, and encourages by His example; the called one follows in His footsteps. The call did not end with a one-time call, but every hour the Lord calls us anew, from one task to another, and these tasks no one performs for us.

I am created to do what no one but me was made to do. I have my place in God’s plans, a place that I alone occupy. I have my mission. Therefore, I am needed by God in my area – just as the archangel is required in his (H. Newman).