Can a lifestyle without giving God a chance to be in the center of your life lead you and others around you to heaven?
If you never rise from purely human activity or external activity to divine activity then you really have to question yourself: “Am I living the ultimate vocation or purpose for which God has created me?”
Moving yourself from your animal and human spirit or instinct requires that you develop your interior life.
What is the interior life?
The interior life is the intimate conversation we have with ourselves when we are alone. So, the moment when we cease conversation with another human being we start one up immediately with ourselves. It doesn’t matter where we are or what we are doing, it just happens.
When it does happen, what do you converse about most? The predictable answer is – whatever we are preoccupied with, which often is — ourselves! It reveals, if you listen, what is your “God”, what you worship the most in your life.
Try this small change in your morning routine.
Start the morning with this simple greeting. “Lord, here I am what do you want me to do today?” At least for a brief moment, until practiced daily, this greeting (prayer) puts God in the center of your life and pushes you from it. Over time when you start to seriously seek God, the author of goodness and truth, something will start to change within. God will start to point to aspects of your life that you need to trim away – the things that distract you from your vocation and the parts of you, your life that you need to elevate or work on as well.
What is the one thing that is necessary to do all of this? Hearing the word of God and acting on it. If I don’t hear God I will act on whatever is in my own head, my own whims, my desires, not God’s.
How to hear God? Move prayer from your head to your soul. This is not an easy task.
Your interior life is the communication between your soul and God not your mind and God. God converses with the human heart not the head.
According to scripture it’s our heart that prays but we often pray in our heads. I need this, I want that, a check list of needs. These things are on our lips, and are only words. “If our hearts are far from God, the words of prayer are in vain.” CCC 2562
From scripture – “And Mary said: My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior.” Luke 1 46-47 Mary didn’t say, “I figured it out! I got it. The angel Gabriel told me – I got it” No – her whole being praised God.
Taking it deeper looking into the business world.
Maybe, if my heart is far from God then maybe my business planning is in vain because it’s not united with God. Maybe if my heart is far from God then maybe all my actions in life are in vain. Maybe I’m doing things that God never wanted me to do because I never communicated with him and I never asked Him “Is that would you want me to do?” my whole life could be lived in vain.
Therefore how do we discern our vocation and start to live it out fully and with abundance? A great start is to examine our interior life where we don’t spend enough time.
