Christian Professionals - Leading the Marketplace
God’s purpose for all Christian professionals is that they use their life to demonstrate God’s love to all they serve and serve with. To achieve this purpose – being a missionary via your career in all corners of the world – you need clear principles. You are God’s representative everywhere. However, it is important to understand that God’s calling for mission does not necessarily mean becoming an evangelist or a pastor. Your mission is to serve God in whichever area He calls you to work. Therefore, the first step to success is knowing your calling, your purpose in life. You won’t become successful if you don’t know your life’s purpose. For example, if you don’t know the way to get to a particular destination, you could easily walk out and start going in the wrong direction. If success is reaching your destination efficiently, are you going to be a success? No. Success for somebody set to go to a particular destination is reaching the place without wasting time and effort.
You are not a success if you haven’t discovered the call of God on your life, because you are likely to go in the wrong direction, or travel at the wrong speed, or with the wrong company.
God knows what you are capable of. The call He places on you is not beyond the capacity He has built in you.
“The kingdom is also like what happened when a man went away and put his three servants in charge of all he owned. The man knew what each servant could do. So he handed five thousand coins to the first servant, two thousand to the second, and one thousand to the third. Then he left the country.”
Luke 19:11-27
To be a good missionary via your profession, it is important to keep growing towards your maximum potential. In other words, don’t try to drive at a speed limit that nobody has forced on you. Your car might have the capacity to move at a speed of two hundred and ten, but because of your fear of driving, you are driving at eighty. If that is the case, the car is not the problem; the driver is. Now, a lot of us are like that. We have put speed limits on our lives. You argue, “The village I come from cannot produce a lawyer, so I cannot become one.” Who told you that you cannot become one? That’s a self imposed speed limit on your life. You need to understand God has given you the capacity to become a lawyer – even if you’ll be the first one from your village! What’s wrong with being the first one? It is also important to understand that you are not like other people from your village. You are an original. Don’t live and wait to die a copy. Purpose to grow to your full potential.
