Labor Day

Today is Labor Day.  Well it was when I wrote this.

 How ironic that I find my head whirling with thoughts and questions about my life and decisions I make.  A day America celebrates the working class. A day we look back on our jobs, careers, income and future. 

 Is it a day we celebrate how well we have taken care of ourselves? How far we've come or how far we need to go? Do we celebrate our self sufficiency?
 

Where is God in all this? Where is the line of responsibility, good stewardship and relying on God? 

I know the Lord chose to use money as a means of making a living and it's money that's needed to pay for things. 

Jesus even had Peter get the coin from the fishes mouth to pay their taxes. Peter was a fisherman, that was his trade, his job. He knew how to fish but he had never found money in the mouth of a fish before. 
So even though God had Peter do what he does, fish, He still performed the miracle.

How is the miracle performed in my job? 
    
I am unemployed this Labor Day. I look back over my life and I see the constant provision but I find myself asking, was I supposed to leave my last assignment? 

Everything in me screams "yes "but I don't see the manna turning into provision yet.

 I check my bank account and what do my eyes see?  As if the font is twice the size of my account information “Activate Credit Card?” I quickly say "NO. "
I will not live on credit.  I will not be in bondage.  

But for a brief moment I find I did think about it..

My thoughts are drawn to John The Baptist. When he said I must decrease so you may increase did he realize he was days away from having his head chopped off? 
Did he wonder as he walked to his death if God was going to save him or had the Lord prepared him for this ending? What does my ending look like?

Where is the line of trusting too much? Is it really only trusting when you have NOTHING to contribute?

Or is it thanking God each day for the job you have knowing He supplied it? Thanking Him for another day of not having idle hands.

No one can answer these questions for you because each one of us are called to a personal relationship and each relationship can look very different.

My concern is not can or will God provide it's more did I miss something? Did I hear you right? Am I still on track?

Gems the conclusion I came up with is even if I get off track the Lord will bring me back. His word says He will be a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. 
Perhaps I'm worrying about the wrong kind of labor. Maybe we should put as much emphasis on our spiritual jobs as we do our worldly jobs.

1Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
 

This kind of job always provides, always honors, always rewards and you can never get laid off or fired! 

There is no unemployment line in Kingdom careers. 
I have decided to celebrate a new Labor Day and if your looking for a job I know God's hiring :)