Isn’t amazing how the time seems to literally fly by. I have been busy lately…everything seems to happen at once. Today I went to the dentist and I believe dentist are an ‘evil’ necessity, which is a subject we can cover later. While Jessica was cleaning my teeth we started talking about having a ‘calling’. She asked me what I did for a living and I said I Pastor a church. We talked for while and she concluded being a pastor was a special calling. As I was sitting there I thought about what Jessica’s job was and asked her, “didn’t she consider this job a ‘calling’? I mean how many of us would go into someone else’s mouth to clean it! I can tell you in uncertain terms that person would not be me. But she said, “she couldn’t think of doing anything else”.
This makes me think about our own lives, I believe we are all called to do something. We all have gifts and talents that enable us to work and serve. What I think we fall short with, is God calls us to vocations. Did you ever think the job you where working was the place God wanted you to be? I think about how God has shaped me through the years…it was doing different jobs. While I was in the Air Force, I worked a verity of different jobs and all of them in some way helped shape me into the person I am today. Don’t get me wrong there was times I really disliked where I was working or who I was working for…but once I move away…got some distance between me and the unpleasant place…I realized I had grown. Maybe it was a new set of tasks and my confidence in learning new skills was boosted. Or perhaps I learned to get along with someone I thought I could never work with.
So where ever you find your self, remember you’re a child of God and ‘no one has authority over you unless it was given from above’. God places people in authority, it will be one of the great mysteries to why certain people rule…but that will be a different time and place. And for the person who is out there and has made terrible choices and the job they are working is the result of those decisions. Or maybe circumstances have brought you to a horrible place…I’m going to ask you to put your faith in Christ and pray for God to set you free.
I believe God is the only one who can make good of terrible situations. He is the master of it…I can personally attest to that.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,In the light of His glory and grace.
Amen
-ps
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