The M&M Connection 

“Who’s first in your life?” 

Circle Three 

Your Relationship with your Work

Labor was worship before the fall and it still is. God created us to do work and He is pleased by it. He wants to see us succeed. He wants to see us happy at work. He wants to see us live out our life for Him in the marketplace. He created us for such a time as this and He wants us to appreciate what He has given us to do.         

Our occupation is important to God regardless of what job we hold or what we think about it. He has placed certain gifts in each of us to do good works and those good works are to be lived out to a large extent through our job.         

Virtually every great awakening or revival occurred through a businessman and in the marketplace. Virtually every person God chose to use mightily in the bible was a marketplace person. Abraham was called out to be the Father of all nations. He was told he would have seeds as great in number as the stars in the sky or grains of sand on the beach. Yet, he never left his day job to do it. He remained a marketplace person, as did Joseph, Daniel, Peter and many others. 

Cities and nations will be won for Christ through the marketplace, which  is made up of government, education and business. Each of these arenas control the city in some way. The light to a city is Jesus but the heart of the city is the marketplace and we need to play a strong and dynamic role right where we are placed. This is far more important then one can imagine.         

Why, because the marketplace and your job are important to God. He knows where He can use you and you need to recognize it as well. We need to learn to appreciate our occupation and recognize our calling is right where we work.

God actually was upset with me when He told me that we demean wife and work by prioritizing and compartmentalizing these three areas of our life. God is in all three. He is in the center of all we do.          

God is upset when we spend time with Him and not our wife or with Him while our job is suffering. God is not glorified or honored by our lack of concern for our wife and/or work. He wants us to succeed at our marriage and our job so the lost will want what we have been given and He can receive the glory. 

On top of that the Venn diagram approach is more fluid then the legalistic line items that you prioritize at the expense of the other two. Let’s follow God in our personal time, marriage and work. You’ll never regret it.

That sounds very important to me. How about you? 

Be blessed and be a blessing, 

Jack

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