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“So vocation belongs to this world, not to heaven; it is directed toward one's neighbor, not toward God. This is an important preliminary characteristic. In his vocation one is not reaching up to God, but rather bends oneself down toward the world. When one does that, God's creative work is carried on. God's work of love takes form on earth, and that which is external witnesses to God's love. If we note properly how much good God bestows upon us, both through His direct creation and through all His crated orders, we shall know the truth that He forgives sins. "God has shown the forgiveness of sins in all His creation.”
― Gustaf Wingren, Luther on Vocation