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Christian Men at Work Podcast


Aug 8, 2022

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Dream job - in my recent interveiw with Ron Johnson, he said that early in his career, he concluded that his job as a customer service rep wasn't the perfect job, but it was the perfect job for him to practice imitating Christ.
 
I'm very thankful for my job right now for many reasons, some are natural and some are spiritual.   I feel that God has gifted me with my job. 
 
I'm also at an age where I think about when I'll retire, if Yeshua tarries and we don't enter fairly soon into the tribulation.  When I think about retirement, I think about how I'll spend my time but I also think about what I won't have anymore.
 
One thing I wont' have is the opportunity to be around and interact with dozens of different people everyday.  That is both a natural and a spritiual benefit of my job.
 
If you question whether you're in the right job, or career, and feel discontent at times and a lack of purpose, I challenge you to think of all the natural things to be thankful for about your job, which can certainly include but not be limited to your paycheck, but to also think about your job in spirtual terms.  What is God doing with you in your job, and here's another cool question Ron raised in our interview, and that is what is God doing with everyone else in your workplace.  
That really hit me because it made me realize I am often selfish in this regard and just thinking about myself and how I'm impacted by events at my job, whether it's on a natural or a spiritual level.  The reality is that everyone I work with is a part of God's amazing plan, and I want to be more aware of that bigger picture and I am and can better fit into that larger plan.
 
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For an example of faith at work, I want to hearken back to episode 3 where i interviewed Chris Patton.  He ran a car dealership and described several ways that his faith changed their mission and how they ran their dealership.  Check it out, it's a very cool interview.
 
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13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow [h]we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
James 4:13-16
 
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Dad jokes from Country Living website:
 
  • "What do a tick and the Eiffel Tower have in common?" "They're both Paris sites."