Work: For God’s Glory
November 14, 2010
Work is a common thing in today’s world. In fact, it is pretty much required to survive, to make money to survive that is. I’m not saying money is what makes you survive, but unfortunately money is required in America (maybe more than it should be, yes it is). People go to work every day and do the same thing, they get in this routine. They wake up at 6AM or so and they get in terrible traffic to beat their boss by 8AM or so. We do not even think about why we work for the most part, it just goes by so quickly and then we head home and wake up and do it again. What if we thought differently more often?
Let me add some personal touch to this. First off, I love my job. I know it was God-given for this time of my life. I know it isn’t where I need to be all my life, but for now God placed me here for a reason. For those of you that don’t know what I do, let me kind of set it up. I work in healthcare, particularly a dialysis clinic. Patients come in every day and have their blood recirculated through a machine that acts as a kidney to clean it because they have renal failure (kidney failure). To put it simple, without us, these patients would die if they didn’t have a transplant.
My job is to fix the machines, keep them in working order, keep the clinic in working order, do a lot of compliance stuff because of government regulations and such, etc. The “etc” part is a big part because things get added to my job description every day. It gets hard not to “burn out” from my job some days and it has happened a lot lately. So much stuff as been added to all of the technician’s plates that it is seeming like we are just set up to fail. I hate that feeling. I hate thinking that everything I do is for not and I will lose in the end. It’s a sorry feeling.
So, I have to catch myself and tell myself “God has me here for a reason, focus on that reason and DO IT.” The reason in the long run is to glorify God. That is actually our reason in this lifetime, but specifically I think my reason is just to do my job, grow patient, grow stronger as a man of God by being in a secular environment and in the big picture to help save patients and give them a little longer to live (or for some, a lot longer).
So, my goal for this post is just to remind you to work for God’s glory. He put you in your position and your company for a reason. Figure out your reason specifically and do it. Don’t sit back in your mundane life and be repetitive and go back and forth Airport Blvd (Mobile, AL people) and scream at traffic.
Do something.
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