Good! Now Go Get A Job August 27th Devotional

Read:

Philippians 1:6

6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

A teacher from our bible college told us that when he graduated from bible college, he went up to his pastor and said, "I know what the Lord has called me to do! He has called me into full time ministry." The pastor looked at him with a grin and said, "Good! now go get a job! God needs to mold and shape some things in you. This teacher did what he said and went to Arby's to work scrubbing toilets and cooking hamburgers, we'll, not in that order lol. Anyway, he did it for three months and after those three months of God shaping things in him, God moved him into full time ministry. This is so important for us to realize that one, if we have been called to full time ministry we can have hope that God will move us to the place we need to be in. Two, if you are not called in full time ministry, you can have a good attitude where you are at, and God will begin to unfold you destiny and dreams here on earth. As we are faithful in our home church, the pastor will see the gifts' in each one of us, and our calling will unfold before us as well. I want to encourage us today to remain as faithful as we can as God moves us where we need to be. God will be faithful to complete our calling, and love us too much to let us do our own thing, and our own thing will kill our first love with our Father God.

Prayer:

Lord, we ask that you will help us to remain faithful where we are at until you move us where you want us to be. Help us Lord to keep our first love with you in the middle of it all.