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Wed Nov 10 17:49:41 EST 2004
"Just a couple comments as food for thought." Reply from a reader to the last newsletter. "I think you should be careful about quoting Matthew 6:24 to support your not looking for a job. Are you trying to say that people cannot work and serve the Lord at the same time?" I said that not everyone needs to be employed for worldly gain. Some are because that is where God has led them. As the verse says they must be serving God and not serving worldly gain. "Are you trying to suggest that your committment to the Lord is "better" than those of us who are employed full-time in paying jobs?" I am suggesting no such thing. Jesus called some to leave their work and follow him. Most were to continue where they were with renewed purpose. "I really don't think you intend to communicate that kind of message. Monastaries are the natural fruit and complete end of such thinking." Strange comparison. Monasteries (A community of persons, especially monks, bound by vows to a religious life and often living in partial or complete seclusion.) are mostly people serving themselves instead of going out to serve others. "Also, I wonder if you have considered a trap that you could be caught in. In previous conversations you have mentioned that the Lord hasn't showed you that you should be looking for a job, and that when He tells you that you should get a job you will start looking. The danger is that you may not recognize when the Lord tells you to get a job. Since you are active in full-time ministry, getting a job would of course take time away from the "Lord's work." Why would God do a thing like that? Logically God wouldn't want you to stop doing what you believe is service to Him spreading the Fourth Angels Message. In this way, getting a job sounds more like the Devils idea to slow down the progress of the gospel. So the logical conclusion would be that you will never get a job again." I seek day by day to follow God's will wherever He leads me. I ask for His guidance and have requested the use of the proverbial 2x4, if I am blind to His will. Logic has nothing to do with the work of the Holy Spirit. "I really believe that it is possible to work and serve God at the same time. Careers and jobs can take second place, or even lower, to more important priorities. While God may call some to full-time ministry, He calls most to serve him in factories, schools, and offices reaching out to people where they are at. This is the most important and needed part of God's work today. There are millions who will never step into a church or look at a web page. But when in their daily contact with a true Christian they see the power of the gospel in living form, they open their hearts to receive Christ like no sermon could ever do. In fact, in our post-modern world where people can believe whatever they want, that is the only thing that will work to turn people to Christ." You are correct, God expects all to serve Him in full-time ministry in whatever they are doing. What you describe is exactly what I did for many years. Now, He has called me to do something else. Later I will be called to do something different. There is no such thing as a more important work. There is only God's work set for every person at the time they are to do it.
I Corinthians 12 Next: 2004-11-12 How to Respond to the Coming Persecution |
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