Key Bible Verse: Doing wrong is fun for a fool, while wise conduct is a pleasure to the wise (Proverbs 10:23). Bonus Reading: Psalm 139:13& 150:16

Journalist H. L. Mencken was asked at age 52, after achieving considerable success, why he was motivated to go on working. His response: "For the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs." He worked, Mencken said, because it expressed who he was. Of course the hen goes on laying eggs, not giving milk or pulling a plow. It's the hen's nature to do a specific kind of work. Mencken felt compelled to express himself as a writer and literary critic; it seemed so natural to him that he couldn't imagine stopping. Work, when it truly fits us, may cease to be work at all.

"God has made you with a specific design," Doug Sherman and William Hendricks wrote In their book Your Work Matters to God. "He has given you a personality, talent, abilities, interests, and so forth–which can be used vocationally.

"God has crafted you in a unique and personal way. It therefore follows that the 'right' job for you is one in which there's a good match between the way God has designed you and a job requiring someone with your abilities."