10. Will the job feel like a good investment of your life when these “two seconds” of preparation for eternity are over?
You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. (James 4:14)
God says that there is a wisdom that comes when we consider the number of our days (Psalm 90:12). Therefore, it will serve your wise choice of a new job to ask how it relates to the brevity of life. When the Lord calls for us or comes for us, we want to be found doing what pleases him. And we want to feel good that we made a wise choice in view of how short and vulnerable life is.
11. Does this job fit with why you believe you were created and purchased by Christ?
“Everyone who is called by my name … I have created for my glory” (Isaiah 43:6-7)
You are unique. That is amazing and true. I often marvel, in a crowded airport, that the thousands of people all look human, and they all look different. How can there be so many differences in this one kind of being? But there are. And none of them is an accident. God designed them all like unique prisms that refract his glory as only this prism can. The question is: Will this job conceal the uniquenesses of your prism? Or will it give you space to shine?
12. Does this job fit together with the ultimate truth that all things exist for Christ?
For by him all … have been created by [Christ] and for him. (Colossians 1:16)
If all things exist for Christ, can there be any wrong jobs? Yes. Because humans try to use things for purposes other than the glory of Christ. Everything God made is good. It exists to communicate something of his greatness and beauty. Will this job free you to take what he has made and turn it for uses that honor him?
I hope you can tell from this that there are few easy answers when asking about what job to pursue. The aim here is not to make it easy but to make it Christ-centered, Christ-exalting and Christ-empowered. If your heart is right on these kinds of questions, God will guide you. Seek him supremely in these ways, and let your heart be your guide.
