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[James SungJin Park]

QT

5/25/2013

2 Thessalonians  3:6-18

My up and down relationship with God is always directly tied up with my personal life. Of course it is......I guess........Is it?

I mean when "anything good".....as minute it may be, has the power to farther me from God. The bigger this anythings good.....such as grades, relationship and money.....that's a no brainer. God who? 

I knew this about me so when I recently started this new job a few weeks ago......on my drive to my first official day at work, I prayed to God. "Lord, help me not forget your grace no matter what" I was very thankful for this job and I vowed to be the salt and light in my new job. Three days into it... I was complaining. Was it my fourth day to work? I was thinking to myself...there must be more to life than going to work and home and the cycle beginnings six hours later. I was complaining to anyone who would listen. But to be honest, the fact that I started questioning there is more to life than trying to keep a job for the sake of money.... I thought i was in a good state with God.

In today's QT...Paul tells me "THE ONE WHO IS UNWILLING TO WORK SHALL NOT EAT" Maybe I was in the wrong line of work. Maybe that's why three days into my new job I was miserable... Maybe I should be a pastor. Terrible pay....same long hours....but I would be doing God's work. I would be doing something that would make a difference. Isn't that the whole purpose of me being here anyways?

The entire day I thought about today's scripture and prayed for an answer. 

Having meditated on today's word, God reminds me is not WHAT I DO but WHY!

Why do I need to work? ANY WORK......What I do is not the important factor here. When we know WHY we go to work is when we realize WHAT we do is not important. Here is what I mean.

When I go to work I realize...

- there are many who still doesn't know The Lord

- who are in worse situations than I

- those I can pray for

- I see my God has created 8 billion "different" people who HE equally loves

- the need to look back at my relationship with God

- the importance of family, friends and neighbors

- the preciousness of Sabath

- the joy of rest

- not how much I make but how much I can do with it

- life is not just home, work and church but so much greater in scale

- life is just not about ME ME ME but a interactions of 8 billion me me me

- the importance of prayer

- and ONLY u can unite all of us and it starts from where I go everyday

Lord, I have been such a fool. You put me in this spot so that I may see your will....but I was so trapped trying to figure out my own will. Forgive me Lord.

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James S. Park