This chapter was strait up convicting. I'm gonna try to summarize it a little and put some key points but I think it is different for everyone. So if you're reading this, you should go read it. Anyways. There was a line in the book and it says "You don't waste your life by where you work, but how and why." This sentence basically covers the chapter. It's not the job you have or where you're at in it or how high in it you are, it's your motivation for doing it and the reasons behind it. And HOW you work at it. Like Mr. Mendenhall mentioned in class, school is my work right now. And it's a great job, I go to an amazing school and have teachers who care about me and want what's best. There are thousands of kids who don't get that opportunity. Yet, I find something to complain about every single day. Colossians 3:23 says "Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than men." That verse is so commonly used but so uncommonly practiced. The chapter talks about how you can glorify God when you have a secular job. The simple answer is to make him look great by what we are doing through our actions. People are looking at you whether we realize it or not, actions speak louder than words. And that is really important I think in the business setting.To branch off a little, it talks about how thankfulness is a great kind of worship. I think that this was the most convicting part of the whole chapter. I look at what I have, a family, a nice house, nice cars, boyfriend, friends, relatives, mac computers, phones, tv's, basically everything and more. And how many times do I honestly stop to thank God for it? Never. And if I do it's very half heartedly. I am SO blessed, and being thankful is a great way to glorify God and remind me of what all He has given me. The thankfulness talked about in the work is about thanking God for what we do. How often to we praise God for giving us legs to walk or eyes to see? Not very often, God has given us the ability to do so many things and so much work, that's why we should work so hard at what we do, because we have the opportunity to. There were six points in this chapter about how to glorify God in our secular work. It would be hard to summarize them all, soo yeah. But anyways, incconclusion,.. God's will in this age is to be the salt and light in our secular vocations. He calls us to be in the word so we can be doers of the word and we can spread it to all around us. God needs to be heard and seen. How will people see if we don't work hard and for the Lord?
The. End.
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