God’s Job Description For You

God’s Job Description for You

Jesus told [the crowd], “This is the only work God wants from you: Believe in the one he has sent.”

John 6:29

Sometimes I dream about buying a farm, baking my own bread, and sewing my own clothes. The world is noisy at times with television, radio, bloggers, newspaper columnists—just to start the list. Endless information is at my fingertips, and it fills my mind with static. . . . Oh, to drown out the noise!

Yet it wouldn’t take six months on the farm for me to start buying my bread again, look for a different house without all the extra chores, and dream of living closer to the grocery store. Does that mean I’m lazy? No, it just means I know myself. I also know that the level of my devotion to a particular idea can be seen in the day in, day out of my life.

We may like the idea of quieter lives, but our true devotion is to be serving God in the daily tasks we already have. There is no end to the various ways we can labor. And no matter where we live, each of us has the ability to “turn down the noise.” The important thing is to remember that the work God wants from us is to “believe in the one he has sent.” What an amazingly simple—and very demanding—job description!

Much of the noise around us consists of messages that tell us to do more, be more, and devote ourselves to more of what we can see. Believing means allowing God to still our souls and to tune out the voices that don’t matter. We don’t have to run away and buy a farm so this can happen. In fact, sometimes our belief is the strongest when we discover Jesus in the midst of the noise.

Dear heavenly Father, sometimes I feel as if my belief is not even worth offering up to You. Thank You for reminding me that it’s what matters most! Help me in all the ways I struggle with unbelief. I long to believe You more! Amen.