This is something that I pondered and wondered for so many years, until a couple of years ago. I had been working full time for a ministry that I helped start and I was working full time at a mortgage company as a traveling account executive .
Since I was working full time for both I was getting pulled in many different directions, and it got to the point that I was running late to meetings and not meeting my deadlines on projects. I knew that something had to change because I couldn't keep doing both.
At the time, I was thinking that I had to choose between my ministry or my employer. Ultimately I was thinking, I had to choose either ministry or a profession, I couldn't choose both. Long story short, I was wrong. After seeking counseling with men (Christians with more life experience and also with men who have worked for the church), they asked me "Where do you feel like you are being called?" I told them that it was with the mortgage company but I couldn't have a calling in the work place. They told me that I was wrong and pointed me towards Scripture.
I now believe that I am being called to work.
Since then I have realized that what I believe now is not very common. I have met multiple people that believe that you can not mix ministry and work, and I used to be one of them.
1 Corinthians Chapter 7, verse 17 says" But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk..." verse 19 continues on to say "...but keeping the commandments of God is what matters" - In the Chapter 10:23-33 Paul instructs us to "Give all to the Glory of God" - NKJV
A couple of weeks ago, I met a woman who was working in the McDonald's drive through line. I knew right away that there was something different about her because she was so personal even when I was ordering my food. When I pulled around to the window, I thanked her for being so personal and having a great attitude. She responded by saying "God put me here for a reason, so I am going to make the best of it." I was astonished. I was in the car with my family and we talked about it the entire day. Just the the 30 second conversation that we had with her, made an ever lasting impression on our lives.
So my question to you today is:
Have you been the McDonald's drive through "lady" lately?
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