I read this a while back and it can change your outlook on your job if you take time to meditate upon the Truth in it. God has placed His children in many different arenas performing various jobs each and every day. No matter where He has placed us and what He has us doing, our #1 priority in our job description is the love of Jesus.
We can show the love of Jesus as we take orders in a busy restaurant or bagging groceries at the local grocery store. We can show the love of Jesus as we change the oil in a customer's car or as we give medication to a patient as he lay in his hospital bed.
Every job is of equal importance when we realize that we all have the same job description....show the love of Jesus.
When we focus on showing the love of Jesus we will find that we can more easily tolerate our co-workers. We see past what we see as their faults and we instead see their hurting heart or their need for Jesus.and find ourselves asking "What would Jesus do?."
I wish I could say I was an expert in this area.....I can't. It is not easy. But I am often reminded by my Heavenly Father that my vocation first and foremost is to show the love of Jesus. I am working on it and I hope you are working on this too.
We can find satisfaction in our jobs when we take on the outlook of Jesus. When Jesus looked out on the crowds the Bible says that He had compassion...for He saw them as sheep without a shepherd.
Matthew 9:35-38 (NLT)
Jesus traveled through all the towns and villages of that area, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And He healed every kind of disease and illness. When He saw the crowds, He had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. he said to His disciples, "The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask Him to send more workers into His fields.
Oh Father, you do not call the qualified.....rather you qualify the called. We are Your children, called by You to work in Your fields. Cleanse us and fill us up with Your Holy Spirit. Send us out into Your fields to impact Your Kingdom.
