Connection break
We live in a world of death, ruin, and obscurity. Each day millions of people gamble big with the hopes of never worrying in life again. Some win. The athletes, celebrities, actors, businessmen, and social media influencers of the world never have to worry about flipping burgers again. Even this victory comes at the cost of becoming large than life, never being able to connect to the average man. Those average men, a million of them for each celebrity, work jobs day in and day out. They say the same thing every day, “I’m just here for the wage”. This is the way of the modern world. Jobs are for money, money is for retirement, retirement is for never dealing with other people again. What happened?
Culture happened. A culture which glorified getting so ludicrously rich that one would never have to worry about human worry ever again. These wealthy people would laugh at the workers, claiming that work was now beneath them, and that work was a chore. Work turned from an honorable, necessary endeavor to how you earned a paycheck. No more, no less.
We are called to do differently. God not only calls us to engage with the world, he calls us to turn everything over to him. We can do more than that. It is time jobs stop being just for wages. Its time food stops being just for physical sustenance. Its time buildings aren’t just for sitting in and floors not just for walking on.
Jobs can be fun, and glorifying God, and working on skills, if we just think in the right mindset. That drab dorm room is only so because you let it be. Dorms are for sleeping, but also for fun, for late night card games and movie nights and awesome posters and Lego sets. These things aren’t done in spite of the room, in fact the room makes them possible. It’s time we changed our minds, and instead of having a life composed of a thousand tiny islands (one of which is God), we should have a singular, whole life in everything that we do. Jesus at the fore, everything to him, and everything to each other. Life is not a island, it is a complex web of ideas. The more of the threads you can see, I find, the happier you will be without paying a cent more.
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It’s so easy to fall into the mindset that life’s just about getting by, chasing comfort. But we were made for more for connection, purpose, and joy, even in the little things. Putting Jesus at the center really does change everything. Great post!
Good post! I like the comments you made about our lives are composed of many tiny islands and how God can be one of them and how we should stem everything from Christ and and how this relates to how we can worship God through all the little things and big things like our jobs.
I really love this perspective, and I think it challenges the cultural norms of society. This is a mindset shift I would love to be more intentional about. You are so right; it is so easy for work to become a means to an end. When in reality it should be an opportunity to glorify God.
This is a great perspective change. It challenges us to be more and more present in each situation because true fun and happiness comes from those, we surround ourselves with rather than our situations.