Job, Career, or Calling
Job, Career, or Calling
If you have a job, do you see it as "just a job", a career, or a calling? How does your job relate to your Christian discipleship and calling? How does your job relate to your family?
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Re: Job, Career, or Calling
For me, this has varied throughout life. As a young man, my work was "just a job" and I longed for something with more meaning to it. I ended up teaching in several Christian schools for five years (over a period of 7 years). I would have considered that a "calling" probably, and for a while I thought I would make it a career as well, but it didn't work out that way. When I worked for Rod and Staff, I felt that I had found my life's calling by making Christian publishing my career. Then God took that away from me, and I went completely into secular work in a corporate setting. Then that was taken away from me as well.Bootstrap wrote:If you have a job, do you see it as "just a job", a career, or a calling? How does your job relate to your Christian discipleship and calling? How does your job relate to your family?
Now I'm working half time for CAM and half time as a free lance writer. I'm not so sure anymore about the labels we give to things. I'm at the point where I view my calling as doing as good a job as I can in whatever God brings my way. I need to support my family. At this point that means that I can't go into full time writing. Is writing my calling? Is my work for CAM my calling? I rather like how the Message puts Ecc. 9:10...
It is God's will for us to work. It is God's will that we serve Him. If I end up serving coffee at Tim Hortons, or cleaning floors at Walmart, I can accept it as my calling from God for the moment. Or I would try to, anyway. It can sound a lot easier than it actually is.Ecc 9:10 Whatever turns up, grab it and do it. And heartily! This is your last and only chance at it.
[bible]col 3,22-24[/bible]
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