About
Christ's suffering upon the cross and your job…
Acts 20:35 In everything I did, I showed
you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words
the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
(NIV)
Acts 20:35 I have shewed you all things,
how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of
the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. (KJV)
We see the world
from within our own life. Seeing Christ's suffering upon the
cross takes us out of our life and then we see everything, including our job, in
a different light. It sounds sacrilegious to speak of the cross and your job at
the same time because it is. It is sacrilegious to talk about your job and the
cross at the same time. The cross is a symbol of the horrific sacrifice Christ
made for each of us. The cross is a symbol of our Lord and what is sacred. Your
job is not sacred. You need your job. You need your job to survive financially
and survive in other ways in this temporary life. However, you also need Christ.
You need Christ so you can live fully in this life and so you can live forever
in Heaven. The more we really and truly see all of our earthly wants and needs in
the background and Christ's suffering upon the cross in the foreground, the more
we are able to see the relevance and irrelevance of our job. The cross connects
to your job as long as you understand the magnitude of Christ's suffering for
you and how you are supposed to walk and talk as He wants you to walk and
talk…on your job. By having a Christ-like view of the world with the cross in
front of all you see, then your job takes on Christ's perspective. When you
accept Christ, you see your job as if you were looking through a window with the
cross in front of your job while your job remains in the background.
