Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Richard Baxter on choosing your calling

I heard this quote first on Packer's teaching series on the Puritans but this website has it too: http://www.gracebaptist.ws/sermons/notes/PuritanStudy/Puritan1.html

"Choose that employment or calling in which
you may be most serviceable to God…
Choose not that in which you may be most
Rich or honorable in the world, but that in
which you may do most good…

In choosing a trade or calling, the first consideration should be the service of God and the public good, and therefore, that
calling that most conduceth to the public
good is to be preferred.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Work and Revelation 22:16

"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”
(Revelation 22:16 ESV)

God made us so that we can worship Him. Therefore, God made our hands and thus, the works of our hands should glorify God. What a great insult to God it must be to take the work of our hands which should glorify God and worship it as a god.