Career Day

Colossians 3:1-17

"If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."

It was easy for me to get wrapped up in this finding-a-job business. I have been through so many passing emotions, from restlessness to apathy; relating to the dear high school Seniors who were applying to colleges. (It's surreal how many of these "life changing" moments are cyclical.)

Time and time again, God used the Word and fellow believers to bring me back to Him. Trust. Rely on. Be patient because of. Submit to the will of.

So now, in the face of a Rosy opportunity with outright glee in my heart, I am reminded of His sovereignty. His timing. His perfect will. I am reminded of the temporal of this world and the eternal of Christ. No matter what job, no matter where, no matter with whom, I know what I hope to be doing.

I praise Him for the victory through the perfect Jesus Christ, for the nails and the empty tomb -the only way that I could have been forgiven for my dastardly life. I can put to death these wretched things and put on love only because of Him, He who loved me first. I await in hope until He returns, and I lovingly live this life for His glory.

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