What is your profession?

 

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We don’t know Jesus because he was a carpenter, we do not care what your profession is, you must know what your profession is! we know Jesus because of his profession. if a doctor turned off his pager we would think he was a fool & insensitive...lives are being lost!  but when we fail to live our purpose we are letting lives slip away!

 

Simply put, our profession of faith makes faith our profession. Sure you work on cars, you are a computer geek or maybe you are an investor… whatever the case - that is your profession… but it is not your profession. Your profession is changing lives through the power of Christ. In your profession you have two professions… Your profession of faith means you now are that business man who serves God, and it is the spiritual profession of serving God as a business man. Confused yet… you shouldn’t be unless you try to dissect the word profession… it is all 3 and all 3 are one. It is who you are, what you do and why you do it.

 

Where is the rub? Well many times we compare our profession and our profession along with our profession with others. How do my professions stand up to others professions. 

 

Here are a few thoughts of Edward William Bok and mine mixed together…

You must not compare yourself with others or measure your profession success by theirs.  It makes no difference how other men succeed in their profession.  Their success is theirs; not yours.  It matters nothing to me that Edison can invent the electric light and I cant; that Kipling can write a ‘Recessional” and I cant;  that you can pleas the law and I cant.  You can do one thing; I try to do another.  But success is for both of us just so far as we do well what we can do in our profession.  Every man is himself, and it is in proportion as he gets out of himself the power there is within him that he succeeds-succeeds in doing the thing he is best fitted to do in all of his professions.

Edward William Bok in Batsell Baxter, Speaking For the Master, Baker, 1954,p.68

 

Why are we more impressed by a mans profession as in work, than his profession of faith and how it impacts others? Maybe we have lost sight of what our jobs are here on earth… what our true profession is.

 

While I wish I was paid $10 for every time I said the word profession in this podcast… don’t miss the point. As a follower of Christ… i.e. in your profession of faith - you now join the ranks of those called to the highest profession. Be you while being Jesus to those around you.