Good morning everybody and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We are super excited to be devoting ourselves to the Lord daily with you all.

Picking up with day five or actually rounding out with day five of our don't waste your life devotional in the Bible app. There's a link to that in the description if you guys want to follow along with us and the scripture is actually all up in this one. So Tori is just going to take it from here.

Yes, let's do it today's devotional is titled making much of Christ from eight to five and it says this.

The call to be a Christian was not a call to leave your secular vocation. That's the clear point of first Corinthians 7 verses 17 through 24. Paul sums up his teaching there with these words.

So brothers and whatever condition each was called there let him remain with God Paul had a very high view of the providence of God that God had sovereignly assigned or called unbelievers to positions in life where their conversion would have significant impact for his glory.

Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him and to which God has called him for 17 says Paul does not mean that changing jobs is wrong in the Christian life.

Otherwise, no one could become a vocational pastor or missionary except very young people unlike Jesus who changed from carpentry to full-time ministry when he was 30.

What Paul does mean is that when we are converted we should not jump to the conclusion my job must change.

Rather our thought should be God has put me here and I should now display his worth in this job as verse 24 says there let him remain with God therefore the burning question for most Christians should be how can my life count for the glory of God in my secular vocation.

Our aim is to joyfully magnify Christ to make him look great by all we do boasting only in the cross our aim is to enjoy making much of him by the way we work.

Secular work is not a waste when we make much of Christ from 8 to 5.

God's will in this age is that his people be scattered like salt and light in all legitimate vocations. His aim is to be known because knowing him is life and joy.

He does not call us out of the world. He does not remove the need to work. He does not destroy society and culture.

Through his scattered saints he spreads a passion for his supremacy in all things for the joy of all peoples.

If you work like the world you will waste your life no matter how rich you get but if your work creates a web of redemptive relationships and becomes an adornment for the gospel of the glory of Christ your satisfaction will last forever and God will be exalted in your joy.

So the thing that I really want to focus on from this devotional is continuing what the devotional read which is steaming and adding responsibility, power and authority over secular careers.

I read this incredible book by Tim Keller called Every Good Endeavor. If you all want to check it out I'll put a link in the description of the episode.

But essentially the book broke down this simple principle and that is that if there is no God then any work you do no matter how altaristic no matter how charitable no matter how big no matter how life changing that impact will cease to exist in the death of the sun it will have meant nothing.

But if there is a God then everything you do with every single breath with every single dollar with every single hour has a kingdom impact.

And I think that a lot of us only feel like oh I'm only working to make money and then I'm either going to go serve God through my church or I'm going to tie there whatever and that's my kingdom impact.

But we're ruling out I mean listen if you spend just say eight hours at work every single day you're spending a third of your adult life at a vocation at a career and what better place for us to share and show the love of Christ.

Then our work then a vocation and one of the best ways to do that is by picking up our Bible and reading Colossians chapter three verse 23 I hope I get this right work willingly at whatever you do as though you are working for the Lord and not for man.

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