Re-reading my previous post, “The Night Hardly Anyone Came to the Art Studio,” got me thinking about how God moves in our everyday places of work. Our pastor, Trevor Estes, defines work in the following way:Your job description is neither an “area” nor what you “do” (such as office work, or counseling, or health care, or facilities maintenance, or art ministry).Your job description, being a follower of Christ, is to love people.Of course, you carry this out within a particular setting in your particular area of gifting, but maintaining that little area is not your real job description.It’s to love people as Jesus loves.Do you have this perspective? How does this mindset change your experience on the job?
What’s Your Job Description?
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While I was still an unbeliever, God used my work to bless a Christian family. I knew a young woman, C, and she had a brother that I wanted to do a charcoal portrait of. I was thrilled when he accepted my request to have him sit for me. I found his countenance and the set of his facial expressions mysterious and beautiful. I gave his sister the portrait. Decades later, she looked me up on Facebook. She told me her parents had the portrait in their living room. Her brother had committed suicide and the portrait comforted them.
I know the Lord uses unbelievers to bless believers at times. I am now a Christian and am doubly blessed that the Father blessed this family through my work. I am grateful.
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