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Choosing the right vocation


by Crown Financial Ministries

A survey in Business Week magazine reported that only one out of six Americans is content with his or her job.

That means that nearly 83 percent are dissatisfied. The most consistent complaint was a lack of fulfillment or long-term purpose.

Certainly, many Christians also fall within this large group of dissatisfied, fearful workers. Why? Primarily because their value system has been altered by worldly standards to a great degree.

Vocational goals
Our society defines successful people as those with good educations, secure positions, and plenty of money.

However, the Bible says that successful people are those who serve God first, are of service to other people, provide for family needs, and are at peace with themselves and with contemporaries.

For Christians to accept non-Christian vocational goals is to invite future problems. “But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction” (1 Timothy 6:9).

Regardless of the income, prestige, or security of a vocation, unless it truly merges with God's will, unrest will persist.

The primary characteristic of those who successfully discern God's will for their lives is that they continually seek to put God first. Most Christians experience doubts and anxieties when faced with major decisions. However, consistently putting God first eliminates most anxiety-producing decisions before they become crises.

Without exception, most people who are trapped in prestigious, well-paying jobs that don't meet their inner needs spend their lives envying the very people who are envying them. “There is one who pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, but has great wealth” (Proverbs 13:7).

Vocational direction
The only true way to find God's direction is to seek it earnestly.

Most Christians do not sense His direction because of worldly pressures associated with the income, prestige, or security of a good job, or they sense it and then lose it by failing to act on it.

The best indicators of correct vocational direction for people are their basic abilities. God has endowed every Christian with unique abilities, desires, and gifts to accomplish His will through them (see 1 Corinthians 12). As Christians seek to truly serve God, the Holy Spirit will make known God's perfect vocation for them.

Vocational decision
Authentic vocations should not be based on our wills or our desires in life. A vocation is not doing what we want to do in our lives, unless of course it is also God's will. Choosing the right vocation must include discerning what He wants for us in our lives.

As Christians, we have the advantage of knowing a certain future. Thus, we have the responsibility to orient our lives accordingly. In addition, we have the advantage of being able to see life from God's perspective.

Therefore, it is vital to seek discernment regarding God's plan. Because our decision must be based primarily on how we can best use our gifts and talents to serve Him, accepting nothing less than the vocation that will complement and extend that ministry is essential.

There is nothing wrong with a successful career; in fact, God promises great blessings. “The reward of humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, honor and life” (Proverbs 22:4). However, attitude is the key ingredient in any vocational decision. Is the decision made by worldly standards—security, ego, income—or is it made to please and serve God and thus serve other people? “He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too is vanity” (Ecclesiastes 5:10).

Conclusion
In choosing a vocation Christians must weigh their priorities very carefully, because when we are out of God's priority guidelines, we are out of His will.

Christians can tell whether they are out of His priority system by asking the following questions. (1) Is my personal relationship with the Lord affected? This includes my time spent in God's Word, in prayer, and in worship with others; and (2) Is my relationship with my family affected? This includes time spent with my spouse/child(ren).

Many vocational alternatives and options can be eliminated simply because they do, or have the potential to, conflict with these priorities. By evaluating every alternative and option through prayer and mature Christian counsel, Christians can guard against violating God's laws while fulfilling life's goals.

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FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN MAKES YOU UNKNOWN

Countless number of people who would have been achieve are capture captive by fear. Fear has sent who would have been great today into obscurity. Fear of failure has made many who would have been great business magnate today to be servant and clerk in offices.

What will happen if I fail? What will people say? The first step is never taken because of fear of the unknown has made them unknown. Can you imagine millions that have gone down to their graves without realizing their full potential because of fear?

Nothing implicates life like fear, nothing destroys like fear, and fear is a force that must be crushed into piece by everyone who really means to get to the top in life.
I quote “Everyone is a product of influence, what influences you is what you will ultimately become”

Fear not! Try again! Take a risk again! Never resist opportunities and never rehearse impossibilities because today’s impossibilities are tomorrow’s possibilities.

Let your mission statement be “I would rather try something great and fail than try nothing great and succeed” Little progress is better than no progress at all. Beware of fear, fear tears destiny, fear is the greatest obstacle to every man’s progress.

Winston Churchill a prime minister of England at 62 after great struggling and a life time of defeats and set backs. Framed on the wall of his office the following words “I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won’t matter. If I am wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won’t make a difference.

OBSCURITY – The state in which some body is not well known or forgotten

MAGNATE - A person who is rich, powerful, and successful,

FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN MAKES YOU UNKNOWN (PART 2)

Never replace goal with pleasure because of fear! Never reject the personal cost of your goals! Never change if you must! John F. Kennedy “said change is the law of life”. And those who look to the past or present are certain to miss the future. And I want you to know that change is the only thing that constant in life, you must experience it. If you want to move forward in life never allow procrastination or fear of change to keep you from any necessary step / action.

I quote, you can only learn from your past, amend your present, and prepare for the future.
Mr. Sidney said “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time. It is the regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
If you take risk and fail, you will have less regret than if you do nothing and fail! The greatest obstacle to everyman’s progress is fear; sometimes it is the failure or crisis of the past that hunt us, this affecting the present. Many great men who ever accomplished great things in all sphere of life were failure at one time or the other, on one issue or the other. Richard Bach said that “Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. While Henry Kin singer declared that “Each success only buys an admission ticket to more problems but never forget that no excuse maker has ever won.

Go ahead and win, go ahead and conquer, fear of failure puts you in a permanent state of self doubt and inadequacy. It destroys yourself confidences without confidence you will always perform below par.
I quote “An attempt to be known every where and every field will surely make you a failure disguise, stand for something so that you will not fall for many things have this at the back of your mind, that you are not a failure until you stop trying.

PAR: the standard or normal level.
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