Discerning Your Spiritual Calling: Moving into Dominion of Your Spiritual Call
The sixth day of the creation story is one of the most important stages of understanding your spiritual calling. On the sixth day, God created humankind in the likeness and image of God and gave every person dominion over creation. With this God given dominion, God sent humankind out to be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth (Genesis 1: 26-28, WEB, 2022).
Dominion is an interesting word as rarely can a person articulate feeling a sense of complete dominion in your life. You certainly have strengths, skills, and attributes that you excel at; yet owning dominion over your life is something that feels foreign and distant. The reason for this alienation is the conscious pattern of thought you live in determines how much dominion over your spiritual calling you will manifest.
Discerning Your Spiritual Calling: Envisioning your Call & Eliminating Worry
Eric Butterworth (2003) in the book The Creative Life: 7 Keys to Your Inner Genius, uses the Genesis creation account to outline a seven-step meditational process for discovering your spiritual calling. Just as the creation story manifest in stages, the revelation of your spiritual calling is progressive. The first stage is illumination, the next, expansion, and the third, visualization. Butterworth notes each progressive stage of the creation story provides guidance on how you can fulfill your purpose and create a life of meaning.
The creation story begins with God illuminating the earth with the phrase, “Let there be light”. This is a metaphor for the moment you first noticed your spiritual calling. You become inspired and open-minded to the possibilities of engaging in something bigger than yourself. You may not have the details of how the calling manifest; but feel a drive to respond.