What business does God have for us to do?
I’m talking about real business, real work…not spiritualized work, but real work that we can do to help other people… to help them live and thrive and do well.
There are things that need to get done on this earth that only we can do. People need more than prayer and best wishes. They need elbow grease.
We need people to wash windows, clean homes, paint houses, reroof them, plow snow, bake bread, sew curtains, mend fences, build barns, pet-sit, design and build dog kennels, grow food, watch kids, cut grass, pull weeds, plant flowers, sweep sidewalks, pick up trash, stock food pantries, work a soup kitchen.
‘Yeah, but those jobs are menial, manual and I don’t like to do that stuff. That’s for somebody else to do while I think and plan and decide what people should be doing. I’ll just pray about it.’
If you see something that needs to be done and you can do it – do it! That’s God’s business for you at that point. Maybe it will turn into a job or career, but we ought to be doing, cleaning, caring, helping, providing something of good service to our fellow man.
It will make the world turn easier and we’ll all feel better about ourselves.
These are just some of God’s ‘businesses’ for us to be doing. I don’t mean only volunteer work, but real paying jobs in some of the above capacities that provide for the physical needs of others.
Have I had some misconceptions about my work, about work in general, about God and prayer and what I need to be doing?
I want to be in business with God.
Mrs. Goodfinder 