So, is it really possible to contain or direct all of my passions into one specific field? I don’t comprehend the fact that people are “defined by what they do” because my day job really has so little to do with who I view myself to be as a person. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the company that I work for, I truly think that it’s a wonderful place and that it’s doing amazing things for Christ’s Kingdom, it’s just that I personally have difficulty defining myself by something that sometimes makes me feel uni-dimensional instead of reflecting the multiple facets of whom I was created to be.
And, yet, I must remember that if I’m fulfilling the two greatest commandments, to love God and love people then I am, in actuality, fulfilling what I was created for.
I may have passions and desires to train, disciple, teach (maybe even preach), write and counsel but I need to be faithful in even the little things. On the days I feel like I’m in a box and that I can’t express what’s really inside, I need to remember to love God and to love people and be defined by that.
Lord, may I seek your approval far above that of men. May I be wiling to say that I’d be “content’ in you even if I am never able to achieve the vocational dreams I think that I have. May I be as content to say, “would you like fries with that?” as I would be if I were counseling and writing for the masses. Lord, take me as I am and be glorified!
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