https://odb.org/MY/2022/06/30/giving-god-my-work
I was with a group of companies for nearly 27 years before I recently found a good opening elsewhere and exited. My pastor said that 3 more years and I would have clocked 30 years and would equal government servants on the pension scheme! In my 27 years, I was not at a single job. I had moved around a few times but I was nevertheless at a job for a long time with the last stint at nearly 13 years. So obviously there were times when I wanted to join another organisation, do something else in a new environment and yet we don’t leave just because there’s another opportunity elsewhere. Actually, in the present work culture, employers value loyalty less than youth and even though they complain when the young nowadays leave after a short stint, they still prefer youth to experience. The young brings vibrancy and a buzz to organisations but crucially they are cheaper, more productive, abounding with energy and ideas. Yet we should not leave for just a few hundred more or just for a change.
This is because as believers, we also believe in God’s calling for our lives and for some of us, there could be a calling to be where we are for a season and sometimes that season is a long one. There is something to be achieved in our lives and for those around us where God has placed us.
That is why there comes a point where we need to look at our work as something we do for God as part of our worship and living sacrifice for Him, not just a job to put food on the table. Some of us have no choice but to stay where we are and it could be for a variety of reasons like a good salary, excellent benefits, proximity to our homes or we are already a master of what we do. Some have not much choice because they are civil servants. Yet we sometimes still wish we could move on somewhere because the work has become less of an adventure more of a chore that pays the bills.
Some of us dream of going full time for the Lord but ultimately our job is our calling whether we are full time or working in the world. That’s our land, the place where God wants us to be and has placed us to be. Cultivate the land that God has given us. Until a really good opportunity comes along and we have the prompting of God to make a move, stay on and do our best for the Lord.
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward (Colossians 3:22-23).
Ronnie's Thoughts 