War at Work

Then Joshua rose up early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. Joshua 8:10

Here you have Joshua and the children of Israel, getting up early to go before a people that they would soon overtake and spoil. When I read that, I thought of what must have been on their minds the night before; knowing that within a matter of hours, they would have to face their enemy.

Many of us deal with this Monday through Friday. Though we aren’t going into hand-to-hand combat; some of our jobs have become battlefields. Places of war; that each morning, we go through mental gymnastics and for me, hours of prayer – just to be able to get there and make it through the day. Though I am extremely grateful for the opportunity, income, and the lifestyle the job affords me; each day, my soul loathes going. Is it because I know some of my coworkers are my enemy? Not in the least. Because God has not given [me] the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. (2 Tim 1:7)

It’s because I know I wasn’t created to do collections all my life. That my job is just that – a job. And because my spirit knows it’s time for me to go on to bigger and better; rising early in the morning to go to a dead end job and work amongst unthankful people has become a chore. It’s as if I have to do spiritual warfare each morning, to go to a job that isn’t adding any value to my life. And I know the same is true for you.

The difference between us and the children of Israel is that they eventually took the city and destroyed its people. You and I won’t be taking over the companies we give 40 hours of our lives to each week. So what can we do? Start doing what we were created to do. And for those of us who are and the job is financing our ability to do it, my prayer is that our faith would shift from it to God. In His ability to provide for us and not only that, but that during the transition from the battlefield to our destiny, that we would thankfully endure hardship as a soldier; knowing that our Ai’s – the field to which God has called us – will soon be overtaken by us and that we’d soon be enjoying the spoils of victory.

Pray this with me: Heavenly Father, please forgive me. Lord, I am truly grateful for my job and thankful for what it has done; but Lord, I know it’s time for more. I see that it’s time for mine. So as I begin to do what you created me to, I ask for grace Lord. Grace to not give up, grace to not have a bad attitude and grace to make it through this transition successfully. In Jesus’ name.

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