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 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."