The Feeling of Complete Enjoyment

Enjoyment And Work Can Go Together

When you think of "Work" I am pretty sure the first words you think of are NOT-fun, exciting, easy, enjoyable or even pleasant. For some of you, those words are not even on your list or have ever been in a conversation that included your work. After reading today's blog, I hope your perspective will change.

I believe there is a kind of work that does not have to feel like an obligation, or a chore, or something you have to chug a whole pot of coffee to help get you through it. It is something you "Get" to do! This work is something that puts the spark in your eye, the excitement deep in your soul, and the enjoyment you can't find anywhere else. And yes, we can ALL have this type of work. I call this the "God-given" work.

1 Corinthians 9:1 - Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the results of my work in the Lord?

Paul knew without a doubt the work God had set aside specifically for him. He was looking into the eyes of people that were sitting around him and seeing them as the fruit of all his hard work. Paul is talking about the work that affects destiny, changes lives and eternity and the work that builds up the body of Christ. The work he could only do IN and THROUGH Jesus Christ.

You may be saying, "Yah, Paul was a preacher, an evangelist, a traveler. What wouldn't be amazing about that?" God has life changing work for you too. Your God-Given work can only be done "IN and THROUGH" Him and "BY you".

Maybe your God-Given Work...

Fits in your day to day job

Maybe it is your day to day job

Maybe it is outside of your day to day job.

I want to encourage you to dig deep to find the work God has "specifically" for you. Find that "Paul" kind of work. When you know your God-given work, there is no other joy and contentment that can compare to walking it out.

Deuteronomy 16:15b - For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.

Get Rid of that Stuck Feeling

The last few months God has been confirming His work for me. Seeing salvation and hope restored stirs something inside of me. When I am doing the work God has put in my heart it is a feeling I sometimes can not describe. God's desire is for us to have joy in what He has chosen for us to do.

Maybe you are in a job that you feel stuck in. I have been there and I know it is not fun. Start doing what compels you in or outside of your workplace and you will begin to see things change. The change may happen in you or it may happen in your workplace, but something will for sure begin to change. The daunting feeling of discontent you feel will be replaced with the amazing joy, excitement and contentment that God will give you as you do your God-given work. But you first need to know what that work is.

I want to hear from you!

What do you believe is your God-given work?

Why Am I Blogging

Kid approved smoothies

Yes, that is a question I ask myself while I am looking at this blank page and empty blog. I never knew a blank screen could be so intimidating. I don't think after staring at this screen for the past 20 minutes I will be able to look at a computer screen the same way ever again. But I think that's ok. I actually like that, I think it's more than ok. It's great!

That is why I have started this blogging journey. Sometimes we have been looking at things for so long it has lost any sort of value, depth, understanding or inspiration. We forget the power and potential that is hidden inside of whatever it may be that we look at day after day.

Let's take my blender for example. It sat on my counter for months and months. I finally got sick of looking at it just sitting there in the corner taking up space. I then moved it into one of my cupboards and was done with that. It actually became more annoying down there because every time I had to pull something out I had to take that bulky blender out or shove it to the left or to the right. Well, today I decided to look at that blender a little differently. I looked at it with potential. I looked at it like it was good for something and I had a plan. Samuel and I threw in bananas, spinach, yogurt, almond butter and almond milk and we created the most amazing smoothies these kids have ever tasted. I didn't know a 3 year old could be so exited about sucking up spinach through a straw.

We sometimes look at our life the same way, day after day and think it's just another day of doing what I do. We think it's just another day of the mundane. We don't always think we have the right tools to do much of anything, let alone something valuable, memorable or pleasing to anyone.

This blog is to get us thinking about things differently, thinking about yourself differently, thinking about your life differently. I was not created to sit on a counter, be shoved in a cupboard, or in my case and many of yours to sit on the couch, be shoved to and fro in life. We were made for a purpose, we were made to Live For Him.

1 Corinthians 1:9 God will do this, for he is faithful to do what he says, and he has invited you into partnership with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Yes, that verse just said "Partnership with Jesus Christ". We are partners with Christ, who was raised from the dead, the Son of the one and only true God. I hope you are looking at yourself differently now. I know I am.

This blog will be taking a look at our lives, opportunities, gifts, ups and downs of life and see where do we need to step it up, where do we need to look a little deeper at something, where do we need to live more for Him?

So let's go!