Life comes at us quickly. I think most of us know what God desires for us to do in our lives. It’s not as complicated as we make it out to be. God gives us a job to do and some times it’s not the job we really want to do. What will people think of us if this is all I do with my life?

Sometimes, this job is our occupational job and other times it’s a certain task God has asked us to do. This “job” is either something we feel is easy and/or beneath our capability, or too hard to accomplish on our own. Let’s look at some examples from the Bible.

Enter Noah and the ark. God asked him to build a boat in a land where they had never experienced rain before. This seems like a large task for a 500-600 year old man! What a mockery he would be if he said yes, and yet he said yes! Did people mock him? Yes. Did he keep his faith in God? Yes. Did God keep his promise to save Noah? Yes. Realize, we don’t know what occupation Noah held before God asked him to build this boat, so we don’t know if he even knew how to construct a boat. We do know, however, that God fully and completely equipped him to do the task He asked him to complete.

Now, let’s look at Peter and his fishing skills.  He made his living on the boat. Even though fishing was his job, his livelihood, Jesus gave him advice on which side of the boat to cast his nets. In his everyday work, what seemed easy and obvious to Peter, he still needed help. Jesus took something Peter did on a regular basis, fishing, and changed the end result from fish to men. The end product changed, but Peter still had to be patient with those with whom he was trying to “catch”. Again, God equipped Peter when on Pentecost all the people heard him in their own language.

Now, enter us. God gives us a job to do. It might appear gigantic or minimal. Either way, God has promised to equip us as needed. When we don’t see the “end result” of what our job is doing for the kingdom, or it’s not providing the purpose we hoped, we get impatient and begin to help God along with the details. We over-analyze ways in which the job could be completed faster or think of ways others could help us complete the parts we really don’t want to do.

More often than not, God has not called us to be the project manager. He has called us to be His servant, the one willing to do the work day-in-and-day-out. We do our work until our work is completed and He calls us home.

When we think we could be used in such a bigger and broader way if only God would release us from the current job He has assigned us to do, remember this: God called you for a specific purpose, for such a time as this. Stay present in your timing and with God and you won’t go wrong. When you are present with God, your desire will be to do this job to the best of your abilities. No more “I don’t like this job” comments allowed!

Funny how both Peter and Noah’s job involved a boat. Our common denominator in all our jobs? Glorify and represent God here on earth. It’s time to get to work!

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