Faith @ WorkNäide

How do you find the strength and courage to face your daily work routines? Where do you find the courage to step out into a new career or a new position?

God is sufficient to replace your anxieties, inadequacies, fears, and doubts with courage and confidence.

It would be nice if God provided a twelve-step program to courage, or seven habits for courageous living. However, he gave something much more amazing: his promises, found in his Word and his presence.

Your strength and courage rests in God. He is the supernatural power who created this world and acted throughout history and in your life. All power on heaven and earth belongs to God. Because he is unchanging, his power will continue to act today, tomorrow, and for all tomorrows. God’s promises are dependable because they rest entirely on his unchanging character. Nothing that God promises or does relies on you or anybody else.

God reveals himself to you in the Bible so that you can grasp the length and breadth and height and depth of his love for you. He shows you how to live in a right relationship with him so that he can provide the strength you need for today and tomorrow.

Daily hear what God says about you and to you through His Word. Don’t be distracted by inferiority-complex podcasts from your youth, fear-mongering messages from well-intentioned friends, or people comparing you with your predecessor.

The wisdom you need today to move forward with courage and confidence can only be discovered in the Bible. Knowing what God says to you in the Bible requires consistent lifelong

• meditation on God’s Word to make it part of your normal, day-to-day reasoning and thinking;
• exploring with other believers how the truths of God’s Word apply to everyday situations;
• making God’s Word part of your everyday conversations; and
• being able to explain how God’s Word influences your day-to-day actions and larger decisions.

You may know a lot about God’s promises, about the Bible, about yourself, and that God is with you, but true courage will not come until you step out in faith and obey His Word. Obedience may mean faithfully doing exactly what you were doing yesterday and the day before. Obedience may mean dealing with sin in your life before you move forward. Obedience may mean holding God’s hand as you take a leap of faith into something new.

“Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go” (Joshua 1:7 NIV).

Prayer

Almighty God, I thank you that you are the fountain of wisdom. Grant me today the wisdom I need in every conversation and for every decision I need to make at work or in my career, so that I may live courageously and that your name be glorified. Amen.