This is Grant Desme who is one of the Oakland A’s biggest prospects. Grant is coming off one of his best seasons in the minors. He hit 31 homeruns and is ranked as the 8th best prospect in the A’s organization.
Well at the age of 23 coming of an MVP season, Grant has decided to retire from baseball to become a priest. Desme says, “Last year before the season I really had a strong feeling of a calling and real strong desire to follow it,” Can you imagine?
Many folks think he is crazy to turn down the future possibility of making millions of dollars, but Grant believes he has a higher calling. Grant goes on to say, “as the year went on, God blessed me, and I had a better year than I could have imagined, but that reconfirmed my desire because I wasn’t at peace with where I was at.”
I applaude this young man for putting God’s calling on his life above his own personal wants and desires. What about you? Has God been telling you to do something and you haven’t been listening? Is God calling you to something, but you are scared to give you what you are currently doing? Learn from Grant, there can be no peace outside of the will of God.
Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you.
