Living Under God’s Pleasure: The Christian Employee

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🗓️ 9 October 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Is there a distinctly Christian way to go about our day jobs? In this episode of White Horse Inn, Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland consider what makes our work valuable. They challenge the human tendency to search for ultimate significance and satisfaction in our work, pointing listeners to God’s design for believers to live out their vocations under God’s pleasure, in the power of the Spirit, and within the rhythms of work and rest that he provides.

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0:00.0	There's people who would say, hey, but you know, I have this specific passion and desire and I won't be happy until I'm doing that as my paid job.
0:11.0	But then this is where Luther is also very helpful. He says, well, in addition to a paid job. But then this is where Luther is also very helpful.
0:13.6	He says, well, in addition to a paid job, there's expressing your passions in your
0:16.8	community, voluntarily, in your church, and also in your family.
0:22.0	And so, you know, it's been helpful for me to tell the folks,
0:24.6	well, you're wanting the wrong thing out of your work.
0:27.4	Look at the fact that it's an opportunity to serve,
0:30.2	not to fulfill yourself, but in your service you'll find fulfillment.
0:35.0	Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe,
0:42.0	the masses would gather for discussion and debate over the
0:45.4	latest ideas sweeping the land.
0:48.2	From one such meeting place, a small Cambridge inn called The White Horse, the Reformation came to the English-speaking world.
0:56.0	Carrying on the tradition, welcome to the White Horse Inn.
1:00.1	In the movie Chariots of Fire, Harold Abrams, a talented 100-meter
1:07.4	sprinter, is in the training room receiving a massage from his trainer, and he's talking with a friend, and in a moment of introspective honesty he says this.
1:17.0	And now in one hour's time I'll be out there again.
1:20.0	I'll raise my eyes and look down the corridor four feet wide and with ten lonely seconds to justify my whole existence.
1:28.0	He wins the race, but he doesn't feel like he justified his existence. There is no joy in him even in winning.
1:37.2	And then in a later scene, another sprinter, Eric Lydall, is rebuked by his sister for not going to China as a missionary as he had pledged and planned to do.
1:47.6	Lydall responds, I believe God made me for a purpose for China, but he also made me fast and when I run I feel his pleasure.
1:56.4	To give that up would be to hold him in contempt, to win is to honor him. When I run, I feel his pleasure. Compare that to 10 lonely seconds
2:08.6	to justify my whole existence. And in the movie's climactic seeing Lidal is running full throttle, head back, eyes closed, serene joy on his face, feeling God's pleasure apparently.
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