Most people view their jobs as either a curse or a career. Christians have a better option.
Your Job as Calling
When we serve God, we do not work just to make a living or primarily to achieve success.
Instead, our jobs become arenas for honoring him and accomplishing his purposes. Seeing our
job as God's calling dignifies it. The work itself may still be menial and wearisome, but through
our attitudes and actions we honor God.
Excellence. Suppose we are underpaid and unappreciated, and our job has no future. Shouldn't
we just get by with the least effort? Not as Christians. Whatever we do, we offer it as an act of
worship to God, who is worthy of our best. The apostle Paul instructs, "Whatever you do, work
at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.... It is the Lord Christ you are
serving" (Colossians 3:23-24).