Finding Your Life’s Work

This paragraph just blew me away... it is so true, yet so difficult. Sometimes we also don't cooperate with God. So we say, "yah god, as if everything were so easy..." And that's a bit me right now. It's like rock-climbing, though i have only a meagre experience of it long ago. It's like.. your foot is on a little notch in the rock, one hand holding a groove here, the other a groove there, and the other foot is swaying around trying to find a new notch to move onto.. yet you can't find one near enough. You can SEE many around you, but it's hard to really GET there... and you know you could with a bit of push, but you don't know if you just might lose it altogether and fall off the wall. It kinda feels like that now.


Finding Your Life’s Work
Excerpt from "Boundaries and Your Work"
By Dr Henry Cloud & Dr John Townsend

Finding your life’s work involves taking risks. First you need to firmly establish your identity, separating yourself from those you are attached to and following your desires. You must take ownership of how you feel, how you think, and what you want. You must assess your talents and limitations. And then you must begin to step out as God leads you.

For God wants you to discover and use your gifts to his glory. He asks only that you include him in the process: “Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this” (Ps. 37:4-5).

God also, however, calls you to be accountable for what you do: “Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment” (Eccl. 11:9).

As you develop your talents, look at your work as a partnership between you and God. He has given you gifts, and he wants you to develop them. Commit your way to the Lord, and you will find your work identity. Ask him to help.