More and more I’ve been talking to women who are pursing
God, but wonder what it means for their career and their current jobs. I talked to a dear friend of mine and she shared that she’s in
a season where God is challenging her, she’s hungering for the Word, but she
doesn’t know what her purpose in corporate America is. She wondered if God
could really use her in the present season to reach the lives of others. She
wondered if working a 9-5 meant that she wasn’t living her life completely submitted
to the will of God. We talked about the fact that bills still need to be
paid, and that she actually enjoyed her job. Ultimately I encouraged
her that she was right where God intended her to be, and that’s what I want to
encourage you with!
Let’s start with this fact: Everyone is not called to be on the
pulpit. As social media pastors and the new generation of ministers rise up, it’s
easy to believe that because you have an Instagram and love Jesus, that God’s
will is for you to be a social media pastor as well.
Let’s address that misconception.
Matthew 28:19
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” NIV
Matthew
28:19 is called the great commission because it’s what the word of God tasks us
to do. We are to make disciples of ALL nations. But notice that verse doesn’t
say anything about your profession.
It
doesn’t say you have to be a Pastor, Sunday School teacher, or Professional Evangelist. It simply says ‘make
disciples’ and teach them to obey everything I’ve commanded you.’
Here’s the truth saints, disciples can be made ANYWHERE, and even more….God needs people in every sphere of influence so the Gospel can spread everywhere.
God
gives favor in corperate settings and in the religious world. Jesus gives favor in
politics and with nonprofits. God is not limited to the four walls of the church
and neither is his commandment to make disciples.
Sis, God needs you to work a 9-5 because the people at your job desperately need an example of Jesus.
Sis,
God needs you in politics and law because the policies of our government
desperately need restructuring.
Christians
should be in every sector of the world because we are called to lead and be examples
in every sector of the world. Matthew 5:16 says 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your
good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”
Note
that the verse doesn’t say ‘before some men’. That’s a hint to you and me that
the gospel is for everybody, and for every business sector.
So the
moral of the story my dear friend is that you’re still getting this Christian
thing right if you’re working a corporate job, you can still be a minister of
the Gospel because your life is the Gospel.
Strive
to be the example of righteousness where you’re at because it draws men unto
your savior JESUS. And trust me, they need it.
Jesus
& I love yall,
Obioma
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