The RIGHT profession

 Zechariah 7:9-10

King James Version

9 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, 

saying, 

Execute true judgment, 

and shew mercy and compassions 

every man to his brother:

10 And oppress not the widow, 

nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; 

and let none of you imagine evil 

against his brother in your heart.

I'd make a terrible spy.

I'd be found out right away.

I'd make a terrible surgeon.

I can't cut people up.

I'd make a terrible detective.

I cannot investigate murders.

I'd make a terrible lawyer.

I cannot defend liars.

I'd make a terrible businessman.

I cannot gain from another person's loss.

I'd make a terrible fashion designer.

I cannot uphold vanity.

I'd make a terrible architect.

I have no patience for client's whims.

I'd make a terrible social media manager.

I do not wish to promote lies, pride, and vanity.

I'd make a terrible president of a nation.

I'd be angry all the time, seeing the corruption around me.

But I'd make a better Bible teacher.

For I love GOD's WORD so much!

It is my oxygen.

My life.

My love.

My happiness.

It teaches me about JESUS.

It tells me of  GOD's will, ways, and wisdom.

It explains about SPIRIT, Scripture, sin, and salvation.

I teach what SPIRIT teaches me each day.

I can do this, until the day GOD calls me home.

There is no exhaustion in my work.

Only perpetual elation.

What about you?

What work do you have?

Are you happy with it?

Does it fill your heart?

Does it truly serve others?

Or are you looking for something more?

Most professions serve a different god.

When you discover its foundations, you reel in shock.

That's why it's dull, destructive, and soul-deadening.

Are you aware who you really work for?

Be born again, and SPIRIT will teach you GOD's laws.

The HOLY SPIRIT will teach you all about JESUS.

The perfect example of who we all need to be.

Never shall you err again.

Never will anyone suffer by your ways.

Never will you have wrong motivations.

You will be of true service to others.

You will be a true blessing to others.

In ways that please GOD.

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MINISTRY of CONSISTENCY

 

1 Corinthians 9:7

King James Version

7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? 

who planteth a vineyard, 

and eateth not of the fruit thereof? 

or who feedeth a flock, 

and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

One of the challenges of ministry is consistency.

We must be true to what we teach.

That applies to my writing ministry.

I must be true to GOD.

True to JESUS.

True to the HOLY SPIRIT.

True to Scripture.

True to GOD's laws.

True to you.

Apostle Paul gives us guidelines for such a path:

1 Corinthians 9:10

King James Version

10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? 

For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: 

that he that ploweth should plow in hope; 

and that he that thresheth in hope 

should be partaker of his hope.

1 Corinthians 9:13

King James Version

13 Do ye not know that they which minister 

about holy things live of the things of the temple? 

and they which wait at the altar 

are partakers with the altar?

1 Corinthians 9:14

King James Version

14 Even so hath the Lord ordained 

that they which preach the gospel 

should live of the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:15-16

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15 But I have used none of these things: 

neither have I written these things, 

that it should be so done unto me: 

for it were better for me to die, 

than that any man should make my glorying void.

16 For though I preach the gospel, 

I have nothing to glory of: 

for necessity is laid upon me; 

yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

1 Corinthians 9:18

King James Version

18 What is my reward then? 

Verily that, when I preach the gospel, 

I may make the gospel of Christ without charge,

 that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:19

King James Version

19 For though I be free from all men, 

yet have I made myself servant unto all, 

that I might gain the more.

1 Corinthians 9:20-23

King James Version

20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, 

that I might gain the Jews; 

to them that are under the law, as under the law, 

that I might gain them that are under the law;

21 To them that are without law, as without law, 

(being not without law to God, 

but under the law to Christ,) 

that I might gain them that are without law.

22 To the weak became I as weak, 

that I might gain the weak: 

I am made all things to all men, 

that I might by all means save some.

23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, 

that I might be partaker thereof with you.

1 Corinthians 9:26-27

King James Version

26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; 

so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

27 But I keep under my body, 

and bring it into subjection: 

lest that by any means, 

when I have preached to others, 

I myself should be a castaway.

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