Work As Worship: Identity and CallingSample

If your life was a graph, we'd see that you'll probably spend a third of it asleep. You'll probably spend about three years eating or drinking, and anywhere between six and fourteen thousand hours cleaning (and you know which end of the spectrum you're on!)

When it comes to the percentage of your life you'll spend working, that works out to a massive piece of the pie.

When you consider the thousands and thousands of hours you'll work, one thing is clear.

Your work's impact goes far beyond your teaching, coding, lifting, fixing, and whatever else your job requires.

In today's psalm, we see a cycle that you will probably experience thousands if not tens of thousands of times in your life.

A situation in your life makes you cry out to God.

God rescues you or reminds you of his presence.

You are filled with gratitude and thank him for who he is and what he's done.

People around you see his work in your life and your gratitude, and they are curious about who God is and may even want to know him better.

Your work can completely transform the lives of the people around you. Not just by the details of your work but because you are the one doing it.

For years, the people who were cut off from hearing about Jesus by their culture or geography were called "hidden people groups." Organizations strategized how to equip people to speak their language and understand their customs to bridge the distance.

Today, there aren't nearly as many places or people who are outside the reach of travel or the power of the internet.

But today's hidden people groups are more likely to be game streamers, racetrack or rodeo workers, or even the top corporate executives.

Will you be the one who speaks their language and understands their customs? Is God speaking to your heart so that your classmates, co-workers, or audience can see him answer your cry, hear your praise, and then want to know more about God?

• What is an example of this cycle of need/rescue/praise that you have experienced in your own life? 
• Did anyone "see" this evidence of God in your life and have questions about his mercy? Why or why not?