For the Lord

1 Corinthians 15:58 – Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast,unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

So what is the work of the Lord?

Being a pastor, evangelist, prophet, cell leader, prayer group leader? What about being a house cleaner, or a mom or a dad or a sister or a grandma or a CEO or a cyclist or a doctor? What job/profession would qualify as being the work of the Lord? And how do I know I am busy with it?

God created people with various talents and it shines through in the Bible. When God told Moses how to build the temple, He described it to Moses, but the finer details He said that the guys who are actually going to make it, will know. God will reveal that to them. Moses didn’t need to know that. In Gen 4:20-22 it is described that certain people had certain talents. God gives us all unique and useful talents.

Our “job” is to do what He wanted us to do, what He planned for us to do, what He created us to do. Whether that is to be the world greatest evangelist or to make pretty tea doilies for your family. He is not concerned about status or “success”, all He asks of us, is obedience.

Our current school and work system does not allow kids to find their passion. They are forced into this sausage maker of tow-the-line, 9-5 worker bees, who thinks it’s ok to earn minimum salary doing something you don’t even like, just to survive.

It’s not.

We need to take the time to find what we love to do. What is your interests? What are you good at? That’s what you should be doing. O, sorry, yes – where will the money come from? There’s no money in this or that… I have a family to feed… I have bills to pay… What if I’m not successful? What if people laugh at me? My family won’t support me… Any of these sound familiar?

Obviously – I am not advocating for you to resign and take up singing straightaway. God did also give you a brain, you know. But if you want to sing, what are you doing about it? How do you go about doing it?

Well, today you can start singing for Tik-Tok or YouTube. You don’t even need to send tapes to producers, if you don’t want to. And you don’t have to quit your job either. Whatever your passion is, chances are, you can start small and do it after hours or on weekends. Sometimes it may be expensive to start – so save up. Make a plan. Don’t throw your hands in the air and give up. If you do, you don’t really want it.

And that’s the bottom line: what do you want? God will give you what you want (who seeks shall find – Matt 7:7) but the trick here, is that you have to know what you are looking for, what do you want. If you don’t know, God can’t give it. He knows – but you have to know before He can give it.

My advice for today:

• if you are happy in what you do – thank God, praise Him and continue in your work for His glory
• if you are not happy in what you do – give it to God, tell Him that you want change, that you are willing to do what He has created you for, and then wait. You can tell Him everyday – remind Him, ask Him, continuously.
• If you don’t know what you want to do – ask God to show you. Sit, take the time to think about what excites you. Try stuff – do gardening, stitch something, paint something, google various hobbies and see what you can do. Search – seek and you shall find.
• If you really want change, if you really want to do what God wants you to do, if your heart is pure in your desire to serve God, things will start to happen. Maybe it will take a while – God changes you first before He changes the circumstances. Be patient, be stedfast.

I am doing a lot a the moment. I have no clue what any 1 thing is that I should be doing – I am waiting for my answer to that. In the meantime, I do. I keep myself busy, And I pray. My biggest job right now, is being a mom and a wife. That is my primary job. Second to that, the job that God brought to me. And then everything else. I am learning along the way, I believe that God is helping me and preparing me. My life is His – I don’t know what I want (apart from a new laptop and car, both are old and well, working on a lot of grace!) and I have asked God to show me what He wants for me.

For Him to give me the desires of my heart – to give me His desires for me. (Ps 37:4).

The work of the Lord is whatever you are doing in obedience to Him. Wherever you are, you can do what you do for His glory. Be willing, be available, be obedient – you are exactly where you need to be right now.

1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.