Forever Called

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, both before I became a Christian and as a Christian. Such were some of the mistakes I felt that I could never be used by God, that I was truly unsavable and could not seek forgiveness.
But God's grace is neverending, it truly is, and He chooses to love us just the same, no matter what we do. Something I learnt was that our calling and purpose never change. What God has placed in us to do, doesn't change because we stuff up. This is something that God has really been teaching me this year in particular and I wanted to share it.
If you read Galations 1 - Paul talks about who he was before he was saved. As Saul, he violently persecuted Christians, but then he says it PLEASED God in His kindness to choose him (Paul) and call him. Think for a second about that, here is someone who hates Christianity and goes out of his way to persecute Christians, and violently, yet it pleases God to choose him and call him. God called Paul before he was born. But Paul stuffed up a lot and chose to walk a different life. Yet God's purpose and calling on his life didn't change. God declared His purpose over Paul before he was born, and God is faithful to His word. so Paul's mistakes were not so much that he could never get back on track. But we can't do it in our own strength, remember it was God's choice in HIS kindess to choose Paul. It's God's grace and mercy that gently pulls us back to Him and puts us on the right path.
There's NOTHING we can do that God can't work with IF we allow Him and IF we turn to Him. His calling and purpose on our lives remains the same - despite what we've done. Incredible. Nothing is impossible for God. He truly can turn any situation and everyone around.
What Paul did when he was Saul, was a complete contradiction to his prupose. But God is glorfied still, because of that 180 degree turn around. Because of the change and new creation in Paul, God was glorified. To give an exteme example, a prostitute can still preach on purity and committment if God called her to it. If she turns around and accepts God's grace, He will still use her to preach that message. And God will be glorified in it. God's call never dies, His words and promises never fade or waver. No matter what. If I think I can never do something for God because I've stuffed up in that particular area, for fear that I would be a hypocrite, I'm wrong. If a persecuter of Christians can became one and preach salvation, nothing is impossible. Of course we have to stop living that life and turn to God with repentance and ask for His grace and forgiveness, but He will gladly accept us and create in us a new person and call out that purpose from within, that's been trodden on and hidden amongst our mistakes.
God planned you, so He knows what you can do, and who you can be, so the calling of your life that He gives you, is the truth about who you really are, and is not beyond your reach. Because it is the reason God made you, He wired you for it.
What God has asked you to do is who you are - no matter what you've done.