If you are uniquely gifted in your work, you will rise and be promoted. You won’t be held back— you’ll stand before kings!
Proverbs 22:29
We are each uniquely gifted. It is beyond our ability to understand why, how and the implications of this gift. We can know this - it is a gift. It can go away tomorrow. But today it is here. Enjoy this gift and celebrate it for what it is. Thank God that you have been blessed with this gift. Treat this gift with respect and remind yourself daily that it is from God - not something you deserve or something that you developed and fostered.
Once we accept that we are uniquely gifted, we often look for a change? If God wants a change, He will do it.
Many people seek a new path in business or in life. We simply are not wise enough to know if we should do this. All the dreaming we do or coaching we seek does not provide what we can trust God to provide.
Live this way. “I am a servant of the living God masquerading as a ______(insert your job).”
Nevertheless, each one should retain the place in life that the Lord assigned to him and to which God has called him.
1 Corinthians 7:17
Each of us is called to relationship with God. We are called by Him, to Him, and for Him. Once we enter that relationship, we are called into the physical expression of that relationship.
All of us have been called to follow Christ and live our lives in obedience to Him. Many of us have a sense to go in one direction or another based on our life experiences and giftedness. This can be God's calling. Or it can be an problematic sense of the grass being greener in another pasture.
Calling goes beyond our work and includes our relationships to others: our spouse, our children, our neighbors -- and our co-workers. We must remember this in order that our "work calling" does not become elevated at the expense of the other important aspects of our lives.
Enjoy the gifts you are given and live in a way that honors God with these gifts. Don’t seek a new vocation unless God puts it in your path and provides the pieces that make the transition. Don’t force it. We cannot trust our own wisdom or the wisdom of other men when it comes to using our gifts in a new vocation. We can only trust God in such things.
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