Divine Design In Work

Have you ever seen something used for a purpose that was not its original design? Have you ever considered what your design is? Have you ever considered what your spiritual gifts are? Have you ever considered what your purpose and calling is?

In our computer shop, we have computers for tables and a cd player used for a prop to prop up a monitor. In both of these cases, neither the computer nor CD player is being used what it was designed for. Kind of funny huh? It's almost ridiculous to think about using a computer for a table.

If I, an electrical engineer design a speaker, I am designing it with a set of attributes. I am designing it to plug into a power source. I am designing it to receive a signal, and I am designing it to interpret that signal and pour forth music or other audio which the signal that comes through it. So, what if the speaker is used for a prop? What if I don't plug the speaker into a power source? What if it has no signal? What if its used for something else? The design is not flawed but the usage of the design is not correct.

We are made with a set of attributes. We were designed with a purpose. Romans 11:29 says that the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. This means that we do have gifts and we do have a call and a purpose. Part of the adventure of life is finding out what the gifts have to do with our calling.

Someone once told me that "work is for the sake of work." Work is for the sake of worship in doing what we were designed to do. JUST AS THE SPEAKERS WORKING TO POUR FORTH SOUND ARE A SIGNATURE OF THEIR CREATOR, SO WE WORKING IN THE GIFTINGS AND CALLING BEHOLD THE MAJESTY OF OUR CREATOR.

Work is not a curse. Toil is a a curse. The ground is cursed. This means that we will have struggles in our work, but when we do what we love, we are filled. We must find what we were created to do. John 7:38 says "From his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water." This means that when we tap into what drives us, we flow with the rivers that make us alive!!!