‘He sat in the boat and taught the crowds from there.’ Luke 5:3 NLT
Do you want God to bless your job? Invite Him into it! Allow Him to use your job to do His job. Peter did that. He had a fishing boat, and one day he invited Jesus on board so He could use it to preach to the crowd on the shore. And it paid off! Afterward Jesus worked a miracle that caused Peter’s boat to be so full of fish it almost sank. With Jesus on board, you’ll be blessed.
‘All glory to Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by shedding His blood for us. He has made us a Kingdom of priests for God.’ (Revelation 1:5–6 NLT) In Bible times priests worked in the church while the kings went out and did battle. And when they won, they brought back the spoils to finance the work of God. So if you’re in the business end of things, you’re a ‘king’, and because you’re God’s redeemed child, He will teach you how to prosper to bless others (see Isaiah 48:17). But that’s the condition: when you prosper, you should be willing to help finance His plan for reaching the world with the Gospel (see Matthew 24:14). You should consider that an honour and an opportunity, because when you invite God into your job, the sky is the limit!
Henry Giles, a nineteenth-century preacher, said, ‘There is no task so low that we may not elevate it; so dull that we may not enliven it if we understand that what we are doing is service to our Lord Jesus Christ.’ So today, allow God to use your job to do His job, and He will bless your job.
SoulFood: 2 Chron 1–4, John 10:22–42, Ps 83:1–8, Pr 26:13–16
word4today an adaptation of The Word For Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright 2024
