I have been thinking a lot lately about work (specifically, the last several years :D) and what to do in the future after grad school.
The sermon two weeks back on Ecclesiastes 2:17-26 was really good for me. It was a good reminder: we should not be looking to obtain significance/meaning from our work. Work was never meant to do that -- if we expect it to be something it is not, we will be disappointed. This includes doing work "for God" (in quotes, because really, God doesn't need us to do work for him in the first place! Though, of course, he is happy when we join him in it.)
The sermon quoted from a sermon by C.S. Lewis, "Learning in War-time". I really like the quote:
The sermon two weeks back on Ecclesiastes 2:17-26 was really good for me. It was a good reminder: we should not be looking to obtain significance/meaning from our work. Work was never meant to do that -- if we expect it to be something it is not, we will be disappointed. This includes doing work "for God" (in quotes, because really, God doesn't need us to do work for him in the first place! Though, of course, he is happy when we join him in it.)
The sermon quoted from a sermon by C.S. Lewis, "Learning in War-time". I really like the quote:
The work of a Beethoven, and the work of a charwoman [house cleaner], become spiritual on precisely the same condition, that of being offered to God, of being done humbly 'as to the Lord'. This does not, of course, mean that it is for anyone a mere toss-up whether he should sweep rooms or compose symphonies. A mole must dig to the glory of God and a cock must crow.He really nails the point, I feel. I'm sure that I will still be meditating on this question for... well, probably the rest of my life :D But it really brings the point back to where it should be: not on work itself, but on God.
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