I recently stumbled upon a book entitled Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to Gods Work by Timothy Keller. This a good read for all of us who are doing secular jobs. Its illuminating and, well worth our time. This will answer our questions, Do we work to live, or live to work? Keller says , “A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is re-imagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.” In todays increasingly competitive and insecure economic environment, we often question the reason for work: why am I doing this? Why is it so hard? And what can I do about it? Work may seem just a means to an end: we do it to earn the money to enjoy life outside the workplace. Here, Keller argues that Gods plan is radically more ambitious: He actually created us to work. We are to work together to make the world a better place, to help each other, and so to find purpose for our lives. Our faith should enhance our work, and our work should develop our faith. Most of us are oh-so-familiar with the personal benefits of and ongoing frustrations with the work/job set before us, whether paid or unpaid. But maybe it’s time to take a deeper look at what we’re doing with our time and energies, and why. Its time to pick up EVERY GOOD ENDEAVOR guys!
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:36:58 +0000
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