In a world obsessed with climbing the corporate ladder, five-year plans, and the relentless pursuit of “more,” it’s easy for Christians to get swept up in the current. It’s a world focused on material gain and ambition. The world constantly promotes the idea that more is better. We’re bombarded with messages that equate success with status and salary. But as followers of Christ, our primary career plan looks radically different. It’s not found in a bestselling business book or a viral productivity hack. For Christians, a career plan is to walk in holiness. It is crucial to follow the scriptures to know how to deal with the Holy Spirit in your life.
For people of genuine faith, a career, as defined by the world, is not primary. Our deepest calling transcends job titles and income brackets. Before we chase promotions, we are called to cultivate what truly matters. There is nothing wrong with focusing on a career. However, for most Christians, putting career over family and the Church does not align with living out your faith.
First Things First: Family and Faith
Scripture is clear about our priorities. Our first ministry, after our devotion to God, is to our family. Paul writes in 1 Timothy 5:8, “Anyone who does not provide for their relatives has denied the faith. Especially for their own household, they are worse than an unbeliever.” This provision isn’t solely financial; it’s about spiritual leadership, love, and discipleship within our homes. Our spouses and children are our primary discipleship ground.
Next, our lives are to be a testament to the transformative power of God’s Word. We are called to live a life adherent to the scriptures. Micah 6:8 beautifully encapsulates this: “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” This daily walk of obedience is vital. It means seeking justice and showing mercy. Maintaining humility before God is also crucial. These ambitions are far greater than any worldly career goal.
Furthermore, Jesus Himself gave us the second greatest commandment: “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:31). This isn’t a passive suggestion. It is an active command. It should shape our interactions and our generosity. It should also shape how we use our time and resources. Our workplaces can be fields for this love, but the command extends far beyond our professional spheres.
The Idolatry of Career and Greed
A significant problem plaguing modern Christianity is societal pressure. This pressure places a strong emphasis on career and wealth accumulation. This focus can quickly morph into idolatry. Jesus warned sternly in Matthew 6:24, “No one can serve two masters. You will either hate the one and love the other. Alternatively, you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
When our career aspirations consume our thoughts and dictate our decisions, we’re on dangerous ground. If these decisions are made apart from God’s leading and define our worth, it becomes a serious issue. The pursuit of riches for riches’ sake is condemned throughout scripture. 1 Timothy 6:10 cautions, “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.” Financial provision is not inherently wrong. Excelling in a profession is not inherently wrong. However, the heart behind it is crucial. Is it for God’s glory and the good of others, or for personal gain and worldly validation?
Walking in the Spirit: The True Career Path
So, what does this mean for our professional lives? It means a radical reorientation. It means understanding that our ultimate “career” is to be faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. This involves actively seeking to walk in holiness. 1 Peter 1:15-16 urges us to be holy in all we do. He who called us is holy, and it is written: ‘Be holy, because I am holy.’
Crucially, this journey of holiness and discernment in all areas of life is significant. It includes our work. We do not undertake it alone. We are given the gift of the Holy Spirit to guide, empower, and convict us. Ephesians 5:18 instructs us to “be filled with the Spirit.” Galatians 5:25 encourages us to “keep in step with the Spirit.” When we prioritize our relationship with God, we become sensitive to the Spirit’s leading. He can and will guide our steps.
A Call to Surrender and Divine Direction
Therefore, let us lay down the world’s definition of success at the foot of the cross. Let us repent of any idolatry of career or wealth that has crept into our hearts. Instead, let us passionately pursue holiness. We should diligently study and obey the Scriptures. Let us cherish and nurture our families. We must actively love our neighbors.
As we do this, let us allow the Holy Spirit to move powerfully in our lives. He is the one who truly opens doors. These doors lead to vocations and opportunities that provide for us. More importantly, they allow us to honor God and utilize our gifts for His kingdom. They help us be a light in a dark world. Trust that as you seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, all these other things will be added unto you. This includes meaningful work that aligns with His will (Matthew 6:33). Your true career is to follow Christ; let Him lead you into the specific work He has prepared for you.
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Thank you for this devotion and what our true career as Christians is.
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Why Torah views the new testament and koran as avoda zara. The definition of abomination!
Israel only accepted two commandments at Sinai before we feared that we would surely die and therefore demanded that Moshe receive the rest of the Torah. What’s the “rest of the Torah”, not just the 611 commandments within the language of the Written Torah but all the halachot capable of rising to the sanctity of time oriented tohor commandments from the Torah itself! Herein defines the intent of the 1st Sinai commandment … to obey the revelation of HaShem לשמה.
LORD not the Name revealed in the 1st Sinai commandment and therefore LORD comes under the 2nd Sinai commandment. The same apples to God, Yahweh, Jesus or Allah etc.
The day of Shabbat approaches, but this tohor time oriented commandment does not rest at one day of not doing מלאכה/work but all the rest of the six days of not doing forbidden עבודה on the 6 days of “shabbat”. Raising positive and negative commandments – which do not require prophetic mussar as their k’vanna to tohor time oriented commandments which do require prophetic mussar as their k’vanna – as learned in the first Book of the Written Torah – בראשית. This first word of the Torah בראשית, it contains both a רמז, meaning words
within words of ראש בית, ברית אש, and ב’ ראשית but more it contains a סוד: the idea of tohor time oriented commandments which includes all the halachot contained within the Talmud! Hence the Gra taught the kabbalah that בראשית contains all the commandments of the Torah. Torah, by definition includes all the Halachot of the Talmud, according to the B’HaG’s Hilchot Gadolot, a commentary that Pre-Adamites the Creation of Adam and the Garden.
The next three Books of the Written Torah contain תולדות commandments; positive and negative commandments do not require k’vanna as do tohor time oriented commandments. What distinguishes a tohor time oriented commandment from תולדות commandments and halachot contained within the Talmud? A tohor time oriented commandment requires the dedication of the Yatzir Ha’Tov which breathes tohor spirits from within the heart. The בנין אב/precedent by which Torah common law\משנה תורה/ learns בכל לבבך\כם within the kre’a shma as publicly taught by Rabbi Yechuda Ha’Nasi in one of his Mishnaot within the mesechta of ברכות, the concept of עבודת השם – the key יסוד (which contains סוד) of doing mitzvot לשמה, a person must dedicate tohor middot (( The revelation of the 13 tohor middot revealed to Moshe at Horev 40 days after the substitute theology known as the sin of the Golden Calf )), by sanctifying a tohor spirit which breathes within the Yatzir Ha’Tov within the heart. JeZeus when asked by his disciples did not understand this fundamental and basic kabbalah/סוד. He taught his disciples: “Our Father who lives in Heaven …” Wrong. Tefillah a matter of the Yatzir Ha’Tov within the Heart. Dedicating a spirit does not compare to blowing air from the lungs as expressed through the precedent of blowing the Shofar. Its not the blowing of the shofar that elevates this mitzva unto a time oriented tohor commandment! But rather the affixation of t’keah, tru’ah, and sh’varim to the positive, negative commandments all as tohor time oriented commandments which remember the oaths the Avot Avraham Yitzak and Yaacov swore the oath ( ONE in the opening p’suk of kre’a shma. ), to serve HaShem לשמה through time oriented commandments.
Because both the gospels and new testament never teach this fundamental סוד\יסוד Jews recognize JeZeus as a false messiah. M0-0-Ham-Madd referred to JeZeus as a prophet. Despite the heretic Rambam’s validation of Islam, neither it nor Xtianity bases their judicial courts strictly upon the revelation of Torah common law. Its this fundamental and most basic of errors which exposes both JeZeus and Moo-Ham-Madd as Av tumah false prophets.
The gospel narrative very much resembles the style of rabbi Natan’s validation of Sabbatai Zevi – the Ottoman mystic. The Pauline replacement theology famously known for its “Original Sin & expulsion of Adam from the Garden” false paradigm, served to subvert the core oath alliance acceptance of Torah curses. Specifically, that the worship of avoda zarah results in g’lut/exile of the chosen Cohen people. Both Xtianity and Islam ignore the chosen Cohen People – the central them of Torah blessings of the oath brit alliance.
Raising Torah commandments from static positive & negative commandments to dynamic Oral Torah time oriented commandments – this latter type of Torah commandment requires employment of either the toldot positive and negative commandments or prophetic mussar found within the language of T’NaCH mussar common law – raises static statute law fixed ritual Greek/Roman fossilized commandments to dynamic Oral Torah living commandments – which requires k’vanna. Neither the imaginary man Roman fiction – JeZeus, nor the false prophet M0-0 – Ham – Madd, did not gasp the k’vanna of tohor time oriented commandment such as expressed through the mitzva of Shabbat and tefillah.
Both of these counterfeit religions introduce a perversion of the tefillah דאורייתא known as קריא שמע. This tefillah from the Torah requires tefillen which permits a chosen Cohen Jew to swear a Torah oath which specifically remembers the 3 oaths sworn by Avraham Yitzak and Yaacov wherein they cut an oath brit which creates the chosen Cohen people, in all generations – throughout time – through the sanctification of tohor time-oriented commandments. Therefore the last word ONE, does not testify to belief in Monotheism – an Av tumah avoda zarah belief system – but rather that a Jew, in any generation wherein he lives accepts the 3 oaths sworn by the Avot as ONE within his Yatzir Ha’Tov. The theology of monotheism, it defines Avoda Zarah far more clearly than does the worship of wood or stone idols.
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