I was just talking with my son earlier about how so many people nation wide, world wide, are not truly fulfilled or even satisfied with their current job situation. It's kind of interesting when you look at the sheer statistics of people who are truly dissatisfied with their jobs. Why is that the case? In reality, every single person should really be at least somewhat fulfilled and happy with their careers. The reason that so many folks are so unhappy with what they do is because they never truly found what God's will and calling was for their career life. If we know exactly what it is that God has called us to do and what our mission is, it is nearly impossible not to be fulfilled and happy with it. If we are doing exactly what it is that God wants us to do with our work, then, at the very least, we should be very passionate about it.
Myself, it took me the first 35 years of life to even begin to realize what it was that I was created to do, to realize what my own mission in life was. Frankly, I was extremely lost, extremely miserable and thought to myself at times that it would be better for me to die than to have to live out even one more day of meaningless, soulless, mindless, "box-folding" or "supply carrying" job day in and day out. Jobs which I only did for the sheer money and existence. Jobs which I did only because I felt I had to. Jobs that I did that may have helped some other company owner to make bank... but only pushed me closer to the edge of my sanity. Truth be told, I walked right off of many of those jobs not only because of the void that I felt while mechanically going through the motions but also because of the utter depression and grueling monotony of them! Why is it that some people can be sentenced to an entire life of this kind of meaningless slavery and others can be rewarded so richly through their work and business? Here are a couple of interesting scriptures to ponder on in Eclesiastes which my 13 year old son had actually brought to my attention while I was speaking, via his memory (or the Spirit) and good stewardship of reading his own Bible pretty much daily. I taught him to love God and I taught him to like to read... I just never quite thought that he'd put the two together so well. He reads at a very high college level at age 13. I was SHOCKED that he actually didn't know what "disposition" meant today.
Eclesiastes 4:7
7 Again I saw something meaningless under the sun:
8 There was a man all alone;
he had neither son nor brother.
There was no end to his toil (work),
yet his eyes were not content with his wealth.
“For whom am I toiling,” he asked,
“and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?”
This too is meaningless—
a miserable business! -NIV
7 Then I looked again at vanity under the sun. 8 There was a certain man without a dependent, having neither a son nor a brother, yet there was no end to all his labor. Indeed, his eyes were not satisfied with riches and he never asked, “And for whom am I laboring and depriving myself of pleasure?” This too is vanity and it is a grievous task. -NASB
Compare those with Eclesiastes ch3 vs 12, 13
12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. -NIV
12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime; 13 moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor—it is the gift of God. -NASB
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