Magnifying Your Calling

I had a thought about magnifying your calling.  It came during a Sunday School lesson when the teacher asked what it means to magnify your calling.

Magnify means to enlarge.  I have always looked at that from the outside - enlarge and expand the scope of your calling, or more fully fulfill your duties.  This time I thought about it from the inside.  What if I try to magnify my calling within my own life?

People magnify and minimize things in their lives all the time.  When there is a big deadline looming, it gets magnified in their mind.  They are focusing on it to the exclusion of other things.  So the other things become smaller in comparison.  We do this with problems, successes, upcoming events, etc.  So if I am to magnify my calling, maybe that means to give it a more important place in my life.  I should make sure it is high enough in my priorities list that I give it focus and really do my best.  I don't want to magnify it so that it dwarfs other things in my life, but I don't want to push it to the side and get to it later either.