[Faith-talk] faith to get a job

[Maureen Pranghofer]

There is one place (maybe more I certainly am no Biblical scholar) in which 
Paul tells the Thesalonians to work.  It appeared they were doing nothing 
but sitting around waiting for the second coming.  I think God knows our 
hearts knows when people have a desire to work, and I think He is grieved at 
the injustice of people being rejected from orking.  When I think not 
working is a problem is when people only desire to do nothing and I don't 
believe that is the desire of anyone on this list or of the other blind and 
disabled people I've known.
Maureen


-----Original Message----- 
From: Debby Phillips via Faith-talk
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 2:31 PM
To: Andrew ; Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion ; 
Faith-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] faith to get a job

Hi Andrew, well, there are several ways I could answer your
question, so let me throw a few things out there and perhaps
others will chime in.

First of all, I'm not sure that it shows a lack of faith if
someone is unemployed.  A lack of faith is giving up.  Yes,
people do give up looking for jobs.  And that may be what they
need to do, but that doesn't mean that that should be an excuse
to sit around and do nothing.  There are lots of volunteer
opportunities out there.  Find something to do as a volunteer and
serve the Lord that way.

Every day God puts things in our path to do.  Sometimes it's as
simple as sending a letter or email to someone you know is having
trouble and offering to pray for them, and then doing it.
Sometimes it's bigger stuff.

Why don't more of us have jobs? Well, there are several reasons I
think.  One of them is that people still have all the same old
misconceptions about blindness they always have had.  But another
thing that is happening is that technology is changing so rapidly
now that as soon as we find a fix for something technology
changes again, and we have to find another fix.  This happens to
sighted folks also.  A guy works in a field for thirty years, and
then some new way of doing that job comes along and boom, there's
a gun out of work.  It happens all the time.

So what can we do? We pray every day that God will show us just
what we are to do that day.  We do what we are asked to do out of
obedience to God whom we love.  Or whatever it is we believe in.
We get the best training we can, we do the best we can do within
our circumstances.  And never think that a job is beneath you.
Some people have started out in the lowliest positions within a
company and now they OWN the company.  And where there's a will,
there's a way.  If, at the end of the day, you have done your
very best, then that's all that God asks of us.    Blessings,
Debby and Neena

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