It’s Monday morning…and some of us are off to work or are we?
Or are we working at home now with the Covid-19 Pandemic?
Work starts soon? Sunday and Monday…any connection?
Someone once said that if we are doing what we are passionate about…it’s not work!
Our work: How important is it to us?
Are we worshiping our work and working at our worship?
Are we finding joy and peace in our everyday work?
Is this talk about finding peace confusing?
We are called to God first and then to our secondary calling…which may be our job, business or what we do in “retirement”
A word from The Call by Os Guinness
“Calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion, dynamism, and direction lived out as a response to his summons and service” P. 29
The Lord created each of us individually with different Spiritual Gifts, Passions, Abilities, Strengths and a unique Personality with different Experiences. When we know what they are and how they work together then we can be most effective in our families, church, community and the world. When we serve according to our SHAPE, we leave a legacy that gives glory to the LORD so when we stand before Him one day, we will hear, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.”
What’s Your Shape?
S.H.A.P.E Spiritual gifts, Heart or passion, Abilities, Personality and Experiences.
Read a good book recently: Answering the Call: The Doctor Who Made Africa His Life. From “The One-Talent People.” Christian Herald. Sept 1949. P. 64 “Always keep your eyes open for the little task, because it is the little task that is important to Jesus Christ. The future of the Kingdom of God does not depend on the enthusiasm of this or that powerful person; those great ones are necessary too, but it is equally necessary to have a great number of little people who will do a little thing in the service of Christ.”
“The great flowing rivers represent only a small part of all the water that is necessary to nourish and sustain the earth. Beside the flowing river there is the water in the earth-the subterranean water-and there are the little streams which continually enter the river and feed it and prevent it from sinking into the earth. Without these other waters-the silent hidden subterranean waters and the trickling streams-the great river could no longer flow. Thus it is with the little tasks to be fulfilled by us all.”
More on using the abilities, gifts, strengths the Lord has given us.
Some excerpts from: God’s Best for My Life by Lloyd John Ogilvie “What are we daring to attempt which could not be accomplished without His strength and intervention? So often we plan our lives around what we could do without Him on our own. A sure sign that we are in communion with the Lord is that we are attempting what only He can do? Can you identify that in your life?”
John Henry states in his article A Conversation on Calling in the book His Kingdom Come
We are called to a vocation. Vocation is our unique call of purpose, the call to serve beyond our daily tasks. Vocation is more than discipleship. Vocation is deeper and wider than career. Vocation is our very personal response to the voice of God. Vocation is our lifework, our special gift of worship, which is the sum of all our gifts, talents, and abilities to serve God’s purpose in our generation (1 Cor.. 3:13-15; 2 Tim. 2:5, 4:8)
In Conclusion, Can we do our work as “Worship”?
NOT worshiping our work!
Your thoughts please.
Asking the Holy Spirit to guide us each day in what we think, say and do is our life’s vocation. Including Him in every thing we do, whether work, recreation or rest, gives us the peace which only comes from knowing Christ as our Savior.