Well, how does one climb the corporate ladder all for the sake of the gospel?

Today's question comes from a podcast listener named Dan with a very good question.

Pastor John, thank you for the podcast.

I recently heard the episode on work and how we glorify God at our jobs.

I want to glorify God in all things, and my question is more detailed.

I know that I can glorify God in my work.

I also know that work is my mission field.

The question is really, how do I balance my earthly work with eternal work?

How do I balance climbing the corporate ladder at the same time pursuing relationships

and caring for the lost?

As a Christian, do I simply say that God will take care of me and I don't need to focus

on climbing the ladder at all?

Or as a Christian, is it glorifying to God for me to be great at my job and to get promoted?

Then, how do I also not forget about reaching out to others?

How do I find balance in this tension, Pastor John?

In one sense, it's presumptuous of me to try to answer this question because I've never

had a long-term, full-time job other than teaching and preaching.

There were summers when I worked full-time, digging swimming pools when summer, begging

groceries when summer, working in the shipping department, filling boxes when summer, working

as a water safety instructor at a camp one summer, being a pole holder at a surveying

company one summer.

But I never felt any sense of long-term calling to any of those, nor any hope of advancement.

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