I saw someone the other day, had some lovely purple hair. I thought it was magnificent. It was great. I saw a Pastor over in Taiwan who's got purple hair too. I thought well that looks great too, but I couldn't get away with that, not at my age. [Laughter] It looked good on him.
So let me just give you some simple things. This is so easy to find this. Number one, what is it you really love doing? What do you really love doing? Everyone knows this. Don't be religious. What do you love doing? That is a clue, and a key to finding out what God's put inside, because when you do what you love, you just love doing it, and you're very happy, and you just keep doing it because you're so happy doing it, because you like doing it. This is one of the things about doing what you love to do. You love to do it, so it's fun; so get some other people and gather them in, and do the things you love to do with them, and then share with them about the Lord when the chance opens up.
Second thing is, what do you hate? What is it really gets you wound up, you hate it? You know, because some people can't say what they love, but they do know what they hate. I hate that! Well maybe you're called to fix it? [Laughter] Come on, maybe you're called to fix it. People complain - somebody ought to do something about it! You saw it - you do something! God's obviously put the concern in your heart. Now it's as simple as that. Sometimes we overlook the most obvious. What is it grieves you? What is it causes your heart to feel touched and sad? That's a clue too.
I was with someone, and they shared this story of where they were from, and I actually felt deep compassion, and I knew that I should try to help that person, because that's what I'm called to do. I knew it because of what I felt inside. Sometimes things get us angry. Now there's lots of reasons to get angry; you get angry because someone cut you off coming in. We're not talking about that; but sometimes you hear of things, and it really triggers off inside you, you know, Jesus looked around in Mark 3, He looked around at the hardness of these religious people in the church, and He was extremely angry being grieved. So you notice He was angry, and He was grieved, and He did something about it. Anger can cause energy to arise, to face and challenge things; and not all anger's good, but some anger - God gets angry. Jesus gets angry - but we forget He gets angry. He walked in that temple, and they were all cheating everyone, and making money off everybody. He got angry! I mean this is no Gentle Jesus! He just stood there, and thought about it while the anger was rising up inside Him, and He's plaiting these lovely whips, and then He ran through the place and turned over the tables, whipped everyone and drove them all out. Now that is something really big. That's a big thing.
This is the same Jesus we were worshipping, oh. [Laughter] Come on. You've got to realise, God does not want the church feminised. He wants the church to be both male and female, in other words, to have a strength about it, that comes about by engaging a cause, and a purpose; and Jesus knew. He said: I'm about my Father's business. What angered Him was, it was His assignment to clean up the house of God. That's why He got angry, and He was grieved because of the religious hardness, and lack of love for people, lack of compassion for people, see? So that's another clue.
Here's another way: find out what you're good at. Just have a look and try a few things. Just try some things, and see what you're really good at, because if you get good fruit in something, probably that's something to do with the assignment God has for your life. Then the last one is, you could ask someone else - not everyone; because a lot of people have agendas, but you could ask a trusted person what they see in you. What do others recognise in you? If you've been in a community, or connected in relationships, after a little while people see what you're quite good at, and they say: well, you'd be great at that. I never thought of being a Pastor, but a Pastor spoke to me and said: hey, you'd be great as a Pastor. I couldn't see it. I still struggle sometimes, but however that's neither here nor there. I've come to recognise it's what God called me to do, just embrace it, and get over yourself, you know, so [Laughter] there it is.