Labor Day is Over, Back to Work!
Richard Dassow
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Labor Day is over. Back to work. Summer coming to an end. Children back to school and or college. Still time for some golf and or short day trips…meeting with friends…New challenges and adventures await us on our journey through life. Need some time to do some more planning for the future and end of year? Feeling a little overwhelmed as we feel the year may be coming to an end soon?
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?
”How important is our daily work?
Someone once said that if we are doing what we are passionate about…it’s not work!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?
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.”
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.
Pastor of Congregational Care at Eastbrook Church
2 年Richard, these are great thoughts! Have you read the book His Kingdom Come? I have not but it sounds like it could be a good resource on the topic of vocation.