For God’s Glory

1 Corinthians 10:31  So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

I have had a lot of different jobs. I have been a pastor, a youth pastor, an elementary school teacher, and a college professor. I have wholesaled electric supplies, run a crime scene unit, and run a ranch. Those jobs are pretty diverse! Although, being a youth pastor and running cattle are not that different, to be honest.

In reality, the only thing all of those jobs have in common is that I tried to be the best at each one of them. I worked each job and decided to be the best employee they ever had. The God I serve deserves my best efforts; whether it’s a homicide scene, a sermon or giving cows shots. The way I perform those jobs is a reflection of the God I love, and he deserves my best.

Six months before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King spoke to a group of Jr. High School students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia and said: "If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: 'Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.'"

Whatever you do for a living, have you turned it over to God? Have you purposed in your heart that you are going to work for the glory of God? When we work for God’s glory, even the most mundane job is a masterpiece. Make your work, and your life, a masterpiece for him.

Today’s Readings:  Joshua 21-22, Psalms 47,  1 Corinthians 10