Your Work and Vocation Matter

“The Spirit of God possesses us to restore us for the new creation… Don’t labor as if it’s all meaningless in the end, and the goal of life is to escape creation.

Go into the operating room full of the Spirit and resist the curse.

Go into your children’s bedroom and become a peace maker.

Go into the field and plant your crops and feed those hungering on the hillside.

Go into the lab and design a better engine to survive the storm and protect the lives of hundreds of passengers.

Go into the office with the Spirit and help people invest their moneys and overcome poverty—Jesus loved the poor.

Go into the studio with the Spirit and create great works of artistic beauty and imagination.

Go into the kitchen with the Spirit and prepare your loaves and your fish as if you’re preparing for the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Go and exercise humanity’s first Great Commission, in the power of the Spirit. And guess what you will find? You will find a whole world of mechanics, pilots, nurses, engineers, accountants, construction workers, salesmen, teachers, baristas, farmers, and all the rest, whom preachers will never meet or reach… Carry out your first commission and there you will find opportunities for your second commission.

Our first Great Commission is to exercise dominion over all the earth. God has never rescinded that commission, and the Spirit energizes that commission. And our second Great Commission is to make disciples over all the earth. The Spirit energizes that commission also, and they are not mutually exclusive.”

• Pastor Brent Cook, from the April 7th, 2024 sermon: Resurrection, Spirit, and Vocation, Part 1

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