Filing and the Work of the Lord

Right now I am a temp working at the university. I work for a great office full of people who love to help students in every way possible. It will definitely be hard to leave this job, whenever that time comes. My job is random, in fact, kind of silly at times ie: cleaning out closets, taking inventory, making sure that paperwork is in the drawer correctly, filing, organizing pictures, learning in-design, and more filing. I kind of hoped for a job like this, one that I don’t leave tired, I get to organize and not think too much, and one where I genuinely feel like I am doing something that makes a difference.

I will explain the last point in two ways: how it can be looked at, and how it should be looked at (I have done a lot of thinking about this topic over the week)

Can be:

I have to give Mr. Decker credit for bringing this to my attention. I am definitely in a role where my work is necessary, I make the office run more smoothly and it is work that needs to get done. However, my job in the grand scheme of American thought is not important, I am a temp, I work for a short time doing whatever is necessary, but I am not important.

Should be: At Grace Chapel we are going through Ecclesiastes… nothing is new under the sun right? My job is a perfect picture of this, I file and file some more and do more paperwork, and at the end of the day the paperwork drawer is full again and the filing is ready to be done again. Oh how it feels a bit endless and not new. But the thing is that I am here not for man, not for filing, but for a God who calls me to glorify Him in all that we do. I work without newness but with complete fulfillness (I know, not a word) in the God who gave me life eternal.

So, as a desperately desire a job that I can make decent wages and use my gifts to a greater extent, right now I am more than content to file and know that it is the work I am called to do for this season.

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