Good morning everyone 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 picking up with day five of our

don't waste your life devotional in the Bible app. There's a link to that in the description of

the podcast. If you guys want to follow along with us and as always I'm going to read the scripture

then Tori is going to pick it with the divo. Let's do it. The scripture is Colossians chapter 3

verses 23 and 24 and it says this. Work willingly at whatever you do as though you are working for

the Lord rather than for people. Remember that the Lord will give you an inheritance as your reward

and that the master you are serving is Christ. The devotional is titled making much of Christ from

8 to 5 and it says the call to be a Christian was not a call to leave your secular vocation.

That's the clear point at first Corinthians 7 verses 17 through 24. Paul sums up his teaching

there with these words. So brothers in whatever condition each was called let him remain with God.

Paul had a 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

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.

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