Does God reveal what He wants you to do with your life?

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Hi everyone. I just wanted to post this to see others’ experiences with this topic. For the majority of people, we graduate high school and go on to college to study something to hopefully find a career in something. I realize we have free will but what do we do if we don’t have any clue on what we should do, or what we’d be good at. I’ve asked God to reveal his will for my life to me, but he is silent. This brings up the question. Has God revealed to any of you what He wants for your life? I realize that we are all called to be holy, regardless of career, but does He help you decide on a career? Has he ever “spoken” or revealed His will to anybody or is that just not how He works?
 
Not in the slightest. Speaking for myself, I’ve been on my own, and despise my place in life. We have the free will to royally screw things up, either through big mistakes or by a plethora of small ones. In my case, the latter is how I ended up doing nothing of value, and I don’t hear any calling to anything better.
 
I don’t know how often it happens, but I was one of those people who knew what they liked and what they were good at in school. So I didn’t feel that I needed God to tell me. I approach God in prayer mostly for spiritual matters anyway.
 
Not to us either.
Maybe He gives us a lot of freedom so He can know us? Just saying.
Happy Advent!
 
AverageGuy said:
Not in the slightest. Speaking for myself, I’ve been on my own, and despise my place in life. We have the free will to royally screw things up, either through big mistakes or by a plethora of small ones. In my case, the latter is how I ended up doing nothing of value, and I don’t hear any calling to anything better.
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Sorry to hear about that man, but hey, we all screw things up, pretty bad at times. None of us are perfect and we’re all working to do our best, which is the best we CAN do right?
 
One time when i prayed to know what God wanted the only answer I seeemd to hear was, “What do YOU want?”

It takes patients and trial and error.
 
I guess I don’t know what I was expecting. Maybe for God to appear and say, this is what I want you to do with your life. Sounds pretty crazy. How then, does God call priests to the priesthood or sisters to the religious life? I don’t know but it seems like most you ask will tell you stories of God speaking to them, in ways I don’t know, but speaking nonetheless.
 
I would like to offer you my personal experience as a 20YO to hopefully help you. Jesus has a plan for us all since the beginning of Creation. We all have a vocation set out for us, be it religious life, marriage, or remaining single. We are all called to serve Christ and help others get the Heaven. This is the point of every vocation. Singleness is to help others get to Heaven through your sacrificial living. Marriage is to help your spouse get to Heaven and religious life is to help inspire others to strive to Heaven.

As a 20YO, I grew up wanting to be a Priest, there was never a question in my mind. But around 15-16YO I started to consider what marriage would be like and at 18YO I seriously believed I was called to the vocation of marriage. Now I not only believe this but I feel a deep calling and wanting to enter into this vocation in God’s time. I pray daily for God to let me meet my future wife when I and her are ready and I ask while I wait that Jesus May purify me and her in any ways that we need it.

After high school I went to college which I am still in, and I have two majors, Political Science and Sociology and I run the pro-life club on campus as well as a Rosary group. I am very serious about my academics while also being a pretty big extrovert and enjoy sports so it’s tough to balance that. I also hate the party culture of college so I spend a lot of time in adoration and daily mass as well as daily Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet.

The deeper I have gotten into my faith the more I feel I can identify what parts of me I should be working on while I wait to find my future spouse in God’s time. Marriage ultimately brings out the parts of each spouse that need purification in order for each to reach Heaven. And so I am trying to work on the things I need to work on so I can be the most help to my future spouse one day and help her grow closer to Christ 🙂

I now thing more and more that I am called to marriage and that Jesus is calling me to help guys who are struggling with porn and masturbation and the hookup culture. I have talked with a lot of guys at my college about these issues and I try to help people on this forum as well with these issues. I believe this is God calling me to serve him by helping guys who struggle with impurity. I feel honored and privileged to help people struggling with these issues and I thank God everyday for giving me the graces to know what to say 🙂

I will be praying for you that you may find your calling in your life and I ask that you may pray for me to be patient as I wait for whomever my future spouse is and that I may meet her soon! haha
 
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I would like to offer you my personal experience as a 20YO to hopefully help you. Jesus has a plan for us all since the beginning of Creation. We all have a vocation set out for us, be it religious life, marriage, or remaining single. We are all called to serve Christ and help others get the Heaven . This is the point of every vocation. Singleness is to help others get to Heaven through your sacrificial living. Marriage is to help your spouse get to Heaven and religious life is to help inspire others to strive to Heaven.

As a 20YO, I grew up wanting to be a Priest, there was never a question in my mind. But around 15-16YO I started to consider what marriage would be like and at 18YO I seriously believed I was called to the vocation of marriage. Now I not only believe this but I feel a deep calling and wanting to enter into this vocation in God’s time. I pray daily for God to let me meet my future wife when I and her are ready and I ask while I wait that Jesus May purify me and her in any ways that we need it.

After high school I went to college which I am still in, and I have two majors, Political Science and Sociology and I run the pro-life club on campus as well as a Rosary group. I am very serious about my academics while also being a pretty big extrovert and enjoy sports so it’s tough to balance that. I also hate the party culture of college so I spend a lot of time in adoration and daily mass as well as daily Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet.

The deeper I have gotten into my faith the more I feel I can identify what parts of me I should be working on while I wait to find my future spouse in God’s time. Marriage ultimately brings out the parts of each spouse that need purification in order for each to reach Heaven. And so I am trying to work on the things I need to work on so I can be the most help to my future spouse one day and help her grow closer to Christ 🙂

I now thing more and more that I am called to marriage and that Jesus is calling me to help guys who are struggling with porn and masturbation and the hookup culture. I have talked with a lot of guys at my college about these issues and I try to help people on this forum as well with these issues. I believe this is God calling me to serve him by helping guys who struggle with impurity. I feel honored and privileged to help people struggling with these issues and I thank God everyday for giving me the graces to know what to say 🙂
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Hey man, just wanted to say that you seem to be doing great on your journey to God and you inspire me to do the same. I’m also a 20YO male in college. Same major of poli-sci as well! It’s funny cause I have always wanted to be holy and ultimately reach heaven, and I thought that this was a call to the priesthood too. Yet, as long as I’ve been here, I’ve always dreamed of being married to a wife. It’s something I’ve always wanted and still do really want, so I think that is what God wants for my life. keep up the good work, I will be praying for you!
 
You can serve God wherever you find yourself.

Some people are called to become priests, nuns, monks etc but I’m pretty sure they are relatively rare.

I’d highly recommend going your own way and you might find things just occur, we are guided in my opinion so I don’t think you can wrong. If God wants you in some particular place you’ll know I’m sure. It’s a great adventure especially if you ask “Lord help me serve you well please.”
 
Im a Wikipedian and every now and again I can make a correction to a catholic article page. This has been a calling for many years and it’s all I do for certain periods of my life.
 
Maybe for other people but not for me. Theeere was twice that I was convinced I was being led by God and in both cases it turned out to be horribly wrong. I have no confidence that I can discern that anymore.
 
God speaks to people in all sorts of ways. For some, He places a thought in their head. For others, He might speak to them through people. In order to hear God, we have to get to know His voice. I’m not really one to give advice, but I think you should spend time in Eucharistic Adoration, increase prayer, and perhaps listen to Scripture. If you’ve already gotten to this point, then I suggest you think about what YOU want to do.

I remember a talk given by a priest named Fr. Mike Schmitz. He said that in order to do God’s will, we mustn’t always wait for Him to reveal the entire path at once; He reveals little by little. You may take what you want from that, but in summary I think you should listen and pray. Get to know Him. Pray for what He wants you to do.

Blessings, Matt
 
Yes God reveals what he wants for you. But don’t expect some voice from heaven to come and say ’ chose biology or chose the maths etc.’ though that could happen it’s unlikely as God is compassionate and such a thing might frighten us, so communication is likely more gentle such as you ask if maths is your subject and suddenly a friend starts asking you to explain maths to him when he has never shown an interest in maths before or you find a maths text book on the bus etc… Also remember God is not going to butt in through all the noise in your life, you have to make peace and quiet for him and learn to listen to what he has to say. He communicates with each of us in a unique way that we already know, we probably used to do it all the time as kids until we unlearned it. Now as adult we have to relearn it. It is mostly about trust and listening. Firstly remember every single thing that ever happens is with Gods knowledge and consultation and he knows all (even if a sparrow falls from the sky), so get used to thanking him and seeing him in all things. It stopped raining for you to walk from your car into work, thank you God. Yep he did that for you. You may wonder what this has to do with your career? your vocation? your direction in life? simple really… you are learning to listen to God and see him in all things, if you do that then you will hear and see his response in things that you have asked. Believe me he gives you everything you ask for when you stop asking for things that aren’t good for you and begin asking for things that are good for your eternal salvation. And he answers you all the time and gives you what you want just like he said on the sermon on the mount, ask and you shall receive. Try asking him his will for you and being open to doing what he wants and he will show you. He does not want things to be a mystery of course not, how are we to do his will if we don’t know it? Ask your loyal guardian angel to help you and don’t give up. Ask Mary to pray for you and guide you so you dont succumb to fear. Remember prayer is like any relationship. the more you put into it, the more you get out of it.
 
Oh and I should have added one massive big thing which I have learned and have also seen other learn - patience. God will do things in the perfect time. Not our time, ie not when we think is perfect or right, but the perfect time, which of course only he knows. So we must learn to wait… oh my is that hard. Most of us fall by the wayside because it is too hard. So get on your knees and beg God for patience and humility. But be prepared for being given them. In order to get patience, one must practice it for all ones life, the same with humility. It is very difficult to do things in God’s time and is part of the submission to God to subdue our own will and simply wait. This is why we must beg God for His help. If you cannot humble yourself and be a beggar before God and in fact any saint and Mary and your angel then you will indeed in all likelihood not find your vocation. So beg for patience and humility at every opportunity and be prepared for them to be given to you, because receiving them is in itself both a trial and a blessing. May God be praised.
 
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