Pastor John, yesterday we talked about living in hope when life seems aimless.

And specifically when a job is hard or it's just difficult to get excited about, we're

going to talk about work more today because jobs for many are scarce.

And many people just take the jobs that they can get and a long time listener to the podcast

Joshua in Vancouver asks this, Pastor John, can a believer ever be called to a lifelong

career for which they do not enjoy?

Pastor John, what would you say to Joshua?

It's not an easy question to answer the way it's formulated.

The main reason is that there is another question which I think needs to be answered first.

Secondly, would God ever call a person to a lifelong vocation in which he does not enable

the person to have joy?

Would he call you to a work you can't enjoy?

That's one question.

Is there a work he calls you to that he won't enable you to enjoy?

The way the question is posed seems to assume that some tasks that God, God might call

a person to simply cannot be enjoyed.

God doesn't have the capacity or the will to give the person he just called into that,

the joy to do it.

And my question is, is that true?

Is there anything in the Bible that would incline us to believe that if God, God, the good

loving Christ sending God calls us to something, he would give us the grace to find it rewarding

and to find joy in it?

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