Many years ago, when someone would ask me what I wanted to do when I grew up, I would tell them I wanted to play professional baseball and then coach and teach school. Many of my friends would respond to the same question by saying, “I want to be a doctor, a nurse, a fireman, a preacher, a schoolteacher, or maybe an engineer.” With each of these vocations the desires of the young were to work with people and satisfy the needs of the public.
I asked my grandson what he wanted to do when he grew up and he said, “I want to play golf in tournaments and make money.”
I realize he is very young, and the influence of his friends is speaking through him, but the focus of many of our younger generation has gone from helping others to “what is in it for me?”
Have we taught our children to be so self-serving that the needs of others are now going to the wayside? Why is it that we have done this?
Many of us over the past few years have gone to work in our chosen vocation and have left God at home or in church. We have become so entrenched in worldly possessions and selfish needs that we have forgotten what God told us to do through His Holy Word. In fact, many of us don’t even search the Holy Scriptures until we become destitute or in dire need.
We need to realize what Ephesians 2:10 says to us, “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
Even though I have never played a day of professional baseball, I have had the opportunity to coach my children and others through little league ball.
This profession I am in has allowed me to speak up with the assurances that God is with me and that He has always been my leader and influence. So many of us have gotten away from talking about the Kingdom of God and letting people know this is our destination.
We need to remember that whatever we do or say, people are watching and hearing us.
If we take God to work with us and allow Him to be in our daily lives, then we will be doing what the Lord wants us to do.
