A week review

While I would love to come to this post and talk about how I saved the world using only a paper clip and a piece of chewing gum...MacGyvor I am not. The most exciting thing I did this week would most likely just bore you. I actually found myself getting a little worried that being an intern here is going to become a little routine.
When anyone first starts to find what they feel is the grand design for themselves, expectations go through the roof, flowers fall form the heavens, and angels sing. Then reality sets in and well...no singing angels so far. I don't know what I thought I was going to spend my day doing. I guess I just wanted to see reality and my hopes match up. (Now before I go on any further I should make something clear. I am not in anyway regretting what I am doing. I love what I am doing! I wouldn't choose anything different.) What I am trying to say, albeit not very clearly, is that I was expecting something that would make me feel well I dunno what I was expecting.
So now that I have realized that this job is at times going to be...well...a job. I can pull my head from the clouds look at things for how they really are and get down to business. And the business at hand is to get my head in the game. Strategic planning, study, instruction, instructing, and making sure that what I was brought on to do is the bare minimum of what I do. I need to think about how we are called to do everything for the glory of God. We should work as if we are working directly for Him. The problem I have with this however, is that I view God as this really laid back kinda boss who wouldn't mind if I went golfing during the middle of the day instead of running spread sheets on how I will make due with the small budget that I have. The dilemma then is, "how do I keep myself motivated and actually working as I should instead of how I want to?" Here is what I have come up with:
1. Don't actually bring golf clubs to work.
2. Remember what I have been paid.
Notice in this second tip I didn't say what I am getting paid. If I looked at this from that point of view, I don't get paid enough not to go golfing. Rather what I am speaking of is the price that was paid for me through Christ on the cross at Calvary. Lets change course slightly to the movie "Saving Private Ryan." At the end of the movie (spoiler alert) Private Ryan is looking into the eyes of his last rescuer and receiving one last bit of advice from someone he never met before who is dieing for his sake,"make it worth it, don't waste it." At least that is how I remember it anyway. The point I am trying to get to is that we all have that same weight on our shoulders. Someone we never met in person "Jesus" died for us in the hopes that we would not "waste it" (His gift). When I look at life from this direction suddenly going golfing during work when I know I have a job to do doesn't sound as appealing. Of course golfing is not in and of itself bad or evil. We do have an obligation to live in a way that honors the sacrifice made by someone who did not have to sacrifice anything. So no matter what your job is and how routine it can be at times please let me encourage you. God put you where you are at this time for a specific purpose. And you may never know how some mundane run of the mill task can influence the life of someone-and you may never know it. So if we focus on doing whats right, maybe God just might get to use us as a GOOD example of what to do. :)
God bless, Nate.