What's your occupation?

Butcher?  Baker?  Candlestick maker?  No, this isn't about Rub-a-dub-dub, the nursery rhyme.  It's about what you consider your occupation. Except for those unfortunates who have lost their jobs, or chosen not to work...we all have jobs.  And we have jobs because we need to pay the bills, provide for our families, etc.  Some have jobs in the public service arena.  Others have jobs in factories, in the ministry, in prisons as staff, the medical field....you name it, there are gazillions of jobs.

In a way, our jobs are something we have to do.  It's a part of our way of doing life (unless we are independently wealthy), a necessity.  So I think most folks take a pretty good stab at making their job a "happy" job, making it meaningful and to some degree measurable in terms of satisfaction and results.

So what will your IRS W-2 say for your occupation as you report your earnings?  Butcher?  Baker?  Candlestick Maker?  Retired?  Plumber?  Pastor?  Enough already!!!  That's not what this is about.

We all have one primary occupation, but we never put it down on our IRS W-2.     If we had a Spiritual W-2, our occupation should be listed as Kingdom Worker.  Being a Kingdom Worker won't necessarily pay the bills.  Nor will it send our kids to college, or pay for family vacations.  But being a Kingdom Worker will do far more for out insides than any job we could possibly have.  By being Kingdom Workers we will:

• have an extraordinary bonding with our Boss...God.
• be blessed in ways we could never expect.
• have more inner peace, joy, and satisfaction than we could ever realize from our jobs.
• become increasingly more Christ-like each day.
• know that God will meet our needs and never fail us.
• know that we are a beloved child of God.

Being a Kingdom Worker is a choice each of us has to make on our own.  When we make that choice it means that we look beyond ourselves for that hurting person or for those in unfortunate circumstances.  It means we may have to sacrifice some of our resources and get out of our comfort zones.  It means that we stand tall and ready to help others and be there for them....and then we do it.

Being a Kingdom Worker means that your Spiritual W-2 will be filed with all of those others who have, by their own choice, decided that one of their missions of life is to help make God's world (not ours) a better place for all of us......especially those hurting or in need.

Will you have a Spiritual W-2?  Will your family?  Will your children?