The blog over at Ligonier Ministries has been featuring series of posts by R. C. Sproul called, “God’s Will and Your Job.”  So far there’s been four installments: Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4.  Here are a few exerpts I picked out from each of the four post.

Explaining the significance of what job we pour our lives into, Sproul writes,

We are all familiar with the aphorism “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” We understand that life is more than work. We devote periods of time to recreation, sleep, play, and other activities not directly part of our principal employment or labor. However, the element of our lives that is taken up by work is so encompassing and time-consuming that we tend to understand our personal identity in the light of our work.

He narrows down the process of choosing the right career path to successfully answering the following series of questions:

The problem of discerning one’s calling focuses heavily on four important questions:

1. What can I do?
2. What do I like to do?
3. What would I like to be able to do?
4. What should I do?

Dr. Sproul explains the role that God plays in all of this:

A vocation is something that we receive from God; he is the one who calls us. He may not call us in the way that he called Moses, by appearing in a burning bush and giving a specific set of marching orders. Instead, he usually calls us inwardly and by means of giving us the gifts and talents and aspirations that we have. His invisible sovereign will is certainly working in the background to prepare us for useful tasks in his vineyard.

In a conclusion of sorts, he says that,

As Christians we have been called to be spiritual salt in a decaying world, to be spiritual light in the midst of darkness. We are to be wise stewards of God’s gifts and talents. That means striving to be the most honest, patient, hardworking, and committed workers we can be. It means settling for nothing less than excellence. God help us to live up to his high call for each of us.