While AI raises a lot of questions about vocation, the uncertainty of how it will affect jobs, “can help us shake off some assumptions that hurt us.” Russel Moore clarifies why this is:
“We have thought of vocation as a definite thing. That mindset may even be behind a lot of the angst we have about discerning God’s will for a career. We think once it’s decided, then the map is set, and now we just set out on it. Of course, that was never really true. Vocations never go the way we plan.”
Frederick Buechner famously said, “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” That’s still true. But the ways and means of joining your gladness to that hunger will change—probably over and over. The unpredictability was always there. Now it’s just recognizable and undisguised.
“You can’t predict with certainty what jobs the world will need in ten years—and you certainly can’t find one and freeze it in place. But the world will still need wisdom and integrity and creativity and care.”