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Work experience
'... [His...experience] making Him perfectly [equipped] ...' Hebrews 5:9
Maybe, you're not quite there yet, but soon you'll be asked to knock up a CV and one of the headings will be Work Experience. What are you supposed to put? What Work Experience? You've spent the last decade locked in a room being shouted at by a middle-aged nightmare that goes by the name of Sir or Miss. Does weeing on the carpet during story-time nine years ago qualify as work experience?
Here's the thing: with God all your experiences can be used for His work. David's early CV read 'shepherd boy'. This gave him plenty of work experience firing stones with precision at dangerous beasts as he protected his flock. When a position came up involving protecting a nation from a dangerous beast, namely Goliath, who was better equipped than David for the job, God used his work experience for greater things. Or what about Technicoloured Joseph? His school report read 'Always daydreaming'. What kind of skill is that? Well, dream interpretation was exactly the kind of skill that Pharaoh was looking for in his new prime minister's post.
Now, what about you? What are your experiences? Maybe, you think you'll never be used by God because you're only experience is feeling guilt or insecure or fear - well, this is exactly what would qualify you to help others struggling with the same issues. Experience isn't what happens to you, as much as what you do with what happens to you.
written by Bob Gass
'... [His...experience] making Him perfectly [equipped] ...' Hebrews 5:9
Maybe, you're not quite there yet, but soon you'll be asked to knock up a CV and one of the headings will be Work Experience. What are you supposed to put? What Work Experience? You've spent the last decade locked in a room being shouted at by a middle-aged nightmare that goes by the name of Sir or Miss. Does weeing on the carpet during story-time nine years ago qualify as work experience?
Here's the thing: with God all your experiences can be used for His work. David's early CV read 'shepherd boy'. This gave him plenty of work experience firing stones with precision at dangerous beasts as he protected his flock. When a position came up involving protecting a nation from a dangerous beast, namely Goliath, who was better equipped than David for the job, God used his work experience for greater things. Or what about Technicoloured Joseph? His school report read 'Always daydreaming'. What kind of skill is that? Well, dream interpretation was exactly the kind of skill that Pharaoh was looking for in his new prime minister's post.
Now, what about you? What are your experiences? Maybe, you think you'll never be used by God because you're only experience is feeling guilt or insecure or fear - well, this is exactly what would qualify you to help others struggling with the same issues. Experience isn't what happens to you, as much as what you do with what happens to you.
written by Bob Gass
