Your Calling: The Clue of the Callus

Part 3 of 7 in Work Smarter, Not Harder

Parte 3 de 7 de la serie Work Smarter, Not Harder

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Brian Hunter · May 24, 2026

Scripture Referenced

Recap

Week three of “Work Smarter, Not Harder” tackled calling head-on: what were you actually born to do? Brian defined calling as the answer to that specific question, then sent the room back into Judges 6 to identify Gideon’s calling straight from the text, to drive out the Midianites oppressing Israel. From there he widened the lens to other biblical examples: Peter, called in Luke 5 to go from fishing for fish to “fishing for people.”

The memorable image, and the source of the message’s title, was the callus: the buildup on your hand from gripping the same tool over and over, or on your foot from the same friction, again and again. Brian’s question for finding your own calling borrowed that image directly, where are your calluses? Not ruts or strongholds, but the things you keep coming back to, that you’re good at, that you love doing so consistently that you’ve built calluses there. Those repeated, worn-smooth places in your life are often the clearest clue to what you were made for.

Brian also fielded a harder theological question from the room along the way: can God ever call someone to do something bad? His answer, grounded in Ephesians’s language of being “God’s workmanship, created to do good works,” was no: even in situations where free will and God’s sovereignty intersect in ways we can’t fully untangle, calling is never separate from God’s goodness.

Touch Points

1. Where are your calluses, what do you keep coming back to that you’re good at and genuinely love doing?
2. Ask someone who knows you well: where do they see your “calluses” that you might not see yourself?
3. Like Gideon and Peter, has God ever called you toward something you didn’t feel equipped for at first?
4. What’s one specific way you could lean into a “callus” (a repeated strength or passion) this week?

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