The Best Job Ever

A hard and painstaking labor that never seems to end, the most emotionally draining and physically tiring task ever that makes every muscle in your body ache from the strain, stress, exertion & fatigue and taxes your gifts & stamina to the max and yet the best job ever….

Your work can be the best job you’ve ever had if you work as God says you should work – with all your heart:

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord and not for men; knowing that it’s Christ Jesus you’re serving, and you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. Col. 3:23-24

Working can be satisfying when you know that in doing your job with excellence and in serving others, you are really serving Jesus Christ – and what more is there to life anyway?

You may be the governor of your state or the man who cleans his house; you may work outside in the sun or inside an office all day, you may travel the road or take clients… It doesn’t matter what you do, what matters is how you do it i.e., the posture of your heart. Listen to Paul as He explains to the Philippians what that looks like:

Do all things readily and cheerfully, without complaining, arguing, bickering or second-guessing and be clean, innocent, uncorrupted, blameless, harmless & faultless children of God in the midst of a dark world full of crooked and perverse people (Phil. 2:13-16)

So, how are you working, willingly? cheerfully? reluctantly? selfishly?

As I was reading this in the book, I understood how I utterly failed to do this in my own job; remembered how I sometimes got careless with my tasks, complained when things got rough and felt fed up when things didn’t go as excepted – certainly not the way I would want to serve Christ. So now, the words of Kind David to his son Solomon are my prayers to God:

Father, help me acknowledge you in my job, let me serve you as a woman after God’s own heart – with wholehearted devotion and a willing mind; knowing that you search my heart and understand every motive behind my thoughts. (1 Chronicles 28:9)