My Purpose Driven Life Journal: Day Twenty Nine

Day 29

Accepting your Assignment

An assignment, serving your Master, doing your job, all sound like something like hard work, something like slavery, something like you have to do so many hours of the day just to pay your bills and get by financially. NO ONE wants to do that so it is a hard thing to have to accept doing. Finding a job that you enjoy getting up and out of bed for in the morning is a rare thing to find. I don’t know many people that pop out of bed in the morning because they can’t wait to get to work. I was probably one of the lucky ones. I not only enjoyed the job I had, I couldn’t wait to get there. I started work at five in the morning, was on call twenty four hours a day and night after hours, it was a normal thing to be out on a Friday or Saturday night and have my pager go off and a company need employees to be on a job site at four the next morning and I would have to stop what I was doing and find them at that hour no matter what time of night it was. But that is what made my job interesting and I was always prepared for it so it really didn’t take more than just a few phone calls and then I could go back to what I was doing. I didn’t know anyone my age or any age for that matter that said they couldn’t wait to get to work every day, or enjoyed the fact that when I told them I started at five o’clock in the morning they said I was crazy. But I was also off at two thirty usually. But if I had to work until closing at six, it wasn’t a big deal, it was my office, and it was my responsibility. They were my employees and my vendors that needed servicing. I was committed to seeing that every one was happy. I truly loved what I did.

When God created me, He had a special plan in mind. He made me with a special personality, a plan that including my likes and dislikes. He knew the way I would be raised and the kind of people that I would work well with. He wouldn’t ask me to minister to a group of people I had nothing in common with. What would be the point? It would do Him no good and me no good. I would lose interest and my motivation would suffer before I even got started. But hand me a handful of people that I can relate to and that I am comfortable with and that I know before I even meet them and we’re set! I could minister to them in my sleep if I had to. Sometimes I feel like I am too. God would never give me a job to do that I wasn’t suited for. He would never give me a job to do that I wasn’t inspired to do. He wouldn’t assign me a job that He knew that I wasn’t excited doing for Him. No one likes a complainer, even God, even though I am sure He listens to them a lot. But what is better than having someone wake up in the morning with an attitude of “Where do we go today Father? Who is on the list of people to meet today?” Someone that is willing to say I will go where ever it is you need me to go. And just be a good listener to His Spirit and respond to it. To be ready to be able to speak at any given moment a situation presents itself, without worrying about what others will think. The army had it right when they advertised “IT’S NOT JUST A JOB, IT’S AN ADVENTURE!” Everyday in His service should be an adventure, because you never know where God can lead you, to whom He can lead you too. Christians talk about being Happy Joyous and Free. But a lot of the time it seems like they are living their Christian lives like they are Happy Joyous Free and Selfish because they are KEEPING all that Happy Joyous and Free stuff to themselves. Like on a Sunday morning you can hear them saying “Good Morning, How are you, Praise the Lord, I got Mine, Hope you get yours too” and then they walk away. If that is how they are at church, imagine how they are any where else during the week. If they can’t even be caring, honestly with the body of Christ on HOLY GROUND, imagine their testimony anywhere else in the world. I don’t even want to think about it. My mother is sixty seven years old and she says she is still waiting to see what God wants to do with her life. MOM look around, please! You are not here just to keep the house clean.

I am so happy that God has created a FIRE in me, a passion in me. Energy in me to be able to use in what ever it is I do. That I am the type of person that can’t just do something half heartedly, that no matter what I ever did in life I always put more than a hundred percent into it. I know this was why when I quit my job that I loved so much just to get high for a few months, that when I went back after I sobered up, this was why I was hired back, that I was convincing enough and serious enough with my life that my boss and the owner knew that if he hired me back, I would do nothing but make money and do right by them, and they were right. I increased the business of two of their offices by five hundred percent within just thirty days. I was the right man for the job for them, and I know God sees me as the right man for the job for what ever assignment He gives me.

God’s assignments are never ones that require a resume that are unreachable. You are the resume He is looking for. There are no requirements needed. Well except that you are willing to accept the work He has for you. That is all. I guarantee it will be a job you are probably already in the middle of doing somehow. The people involved will already be there in your life. And if they aren’t yet, don’t worry you will get along with them just fine. God will only bring you someone that wants to know you. Think of the happiest day you could have. Then think of God giving you an even better day and that will be your best day of work. And then you would say, “If I could do that every day I wouldn’t even worry about the pay” because at the end of the day the satisfaction of knowing that your day just meant more than any paycheck could ever give you, would be enough to carry you though until tomorrow or even the next week. Yesterday is gone for me, but today, was even better, and yesterday was the BOMB!

Day by Day

Each day of my life is a new adventure

For what it holds is store for me I do not know

But one thing is for sure, my Lord will be there

To keep me and guide me, and with Him I will share

As each day goes by I see more and more

Just what it means to walk with the Lord

To ask seek and knock, on Him I will call

For Jesus is with me when I stumble and fall

Each morning I pray that my spirit He’ll renew

It’s a cleansing I need, by His blood thru and thru

Fill me O Lord with your spirit today