The great commandment to love is not this sort of ethereal, oh, just love. We talk a big game about love in our culture right now. What vocation does is it gives us the neighbor whom we are to love in the moment we are in. So as a pastor, my job is to love my congregation by faithfully preaching the word to them and visiting them in the hospital. As a father, I love my children by disciplining them, by buying them ice cream on a whim,. By doing fun things with them, but also training them up in the ways of the Lord.
Is there a distinctly Christian way to go about our day jobs? In this episode of White Horse Inn, Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland consider what makes our work valuable. They challenge the human tendency to search for ultimate significance and satisfaction in our work, pointing listeners to God’s design for believers to live out their vocations under God’s pleasure, in the power of the Spirit, and within the rhythms of work and rest that he provides.