"Hardwired" for Work
Theme of the Week: From Career to Calling
Charles Colson
Monday, September 4, 2006
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Key Bible Verse: Work with enthusiasm, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people (Ephesians 6:7). Bonus Reading:Ephesians 6:5-8
Our innate desire for dignity and self-respect can be satisfied only when we discover our purpose, which will embrace our work. When we can use our gifts and creativity on the job, we find great satisfaction in it.
"Work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live," wrote English novelist Dorothy Sayers, "but the thing one lives to do."
Businessman Howard Butt Jr. tells of a friend who stopped by a garage to have a tire repaired. He watched the mechanic pop the hubcap off with a tire iron, spin loose the bolts with his wrench, and mount the wheel on his tire changer. With the mechanic's guidance the machine soon worked the old tire off and the new one on. In ten minutes or less, the mechanic had tightened down the last bolt on the restored tire. Then he said, not to his customer, but as if speaking to the new tire, "There, another good job done by me." Butt said of the mechanic, "Changing tires didn't define him, but doing a good job did."
Anyone who hasn't had a similar experience, doing a concrete task well, with the pleasure that brings, has had a poor life indeed. We all feel connected to the truly good things in life through work.
—Charles Colson in The Good Life
My Response: A task I take pleasure in performing well is …
Adapted from The Good Life (Tyndale, 2005) by permission.
Copyright © 2006 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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Lord, let me know clearly the work You are calling me to do in life. And grant me the courage, love, and lasting dedication to answer Your call. —Saint Meinrad
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