Does my work matter to God?

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It's easy to see how some jobs are a calling.  The first one we think about is pastor, mostly because we preacher types talk about our calling.  Other jobs like medicine, fireman,  police officer and social worker just to name a few are easy to understand as callings.  

Before I became a pastor I worked in the grocery business.  Have to say it is hard to see how putting cans of beans on the shelf was much of a calling.  Don't get me wrong, the grocery industry is good, honest and honorable work.  It just doesn't seem like a calling, like it was all that important to God and His Kingdom.  

The truth is some of us have jobs that we know God called us to do.  We can easily connect the dots between what we do and the work of God in the world.  These jobs bring healing and life and we get paid to do it!  

For the vast majority the connection isn't as clear.  We work at jobs that do good and allow us to provide for our families but we can't help but wonder if our work really matters in the grand scheme of things.  I confess I struggled with that while doing good work in the business world. 

What God ultimately taught me was that I had a Missionary Job.  What that meant to me was that God had put me in a place to :"be Him to Them."  It really wasn't about cans of beans it was about the 100's of people I worked with and came in contact with.  I was a missionary to Albertsons!  God put me in there to live out His life and be His hands and feet in that place.  Let me tell you, that matters A LOT to God.  

Does your work matter to God.  BUNCHES.  If you work a job where it is easy to connect the dots give thanks.  I you have a missionary job give thanks and know that every time you walk through the doors of your place of employment, you are entering the mission field and you are the God's missionary to that place.  

Turns out not only do you matter to God, but your work matters as well.  

You can check out last weeks sermon on this topic by clicking below after Wednesday of each week.