AW Tozer & Work

Sacred/Secular, Eternal/Temporal Work & Life - This is something that I often wrestle with. Often because I don't really care too much about what color you paint the walls of your house, but more because I want to do something eternally significant.

I struggle with the sacred/secular ideology often. I know that God has placed me in the job he has for a reason and my goals are to be successful in our business (so that) I can keep my life simple, uncluttered and centered on Christ and use the resources he has given to send missionaries, help orphans and widows, and see His kingdom enlarge and not my own.

This is a hard struggle. Some days I think I should just go get a job at Compassion International instead of trifling about with all this work to do the same thing.

Then I read AW Tozer and he brings some good teaching and advice to light.

"It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything".

"I believe this state of affairs to be wholly unnecessary. We have gotten ourselves on the horns of a dilemma, true enough, but the dilemma is not real. It is a creature of misunderstanding. The sacred-secular antithesis has no foundation in the New Testament. Without doubt a more perfect understanding of Christian truth will deliver us from it."
AW Tozer - The Pursuit of God - Chapter 10 : The Sacrament of Living

I am still wresting through this, but I thought other might be struggling with the same thoughts, so here it is. You can read AW Tozer; The Pursuit of God for FREE online.