Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. I read that this morning. This message appears all over the Old Testament, most notably (to me) in Psalm 119, particularly verse 15. Big deal, right? But I got to thinking. Have you heard it said that a Christian's occupation is in the service of the Lord first, and their 9-5 job second? That's a good direction to aim for, I think, but how often is it really the case? I mean, when you wake up, do you start planning how to serve the Lord that day or do you start planning what meetings you're going to at work that day? Going by my own record, it's the latter. If the energy we spent on planning and working on our 9-5 job were redirected toward Godly things, what would that look like? "Meditate on the Law day and night." I know that if I put my mind to it, not just for a few minutes a day, but for extended periods bordering on the obsessive, I can accomplish great things for the Lord, just as I do at my "second" job. I just thought I'd share. I never connected thinking a lot about Godly things with the metaphor of my "job." |
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