I am convinced that there are
as many different ways of knowing
God at work as there are workers,
and that each person’s experience
of God on the job is as unique as his
or her fingerprint.
Each of us has a vocational love
language with which we best relate
to God at work.
God gave us this language
because he loves us and wants to
know us personally. Because his
love is universal and unlimited, God
connects with people wherever
they are, via a language that is best
for them.
God speaks your language. . .
your vocational love language.
The God of all creation speaks
physics, chemistry, and biology;
prose, poetry, and computer
programming; leadership, organiza-
tional behavior, and accounting;
planning, serving, and cleaning;
and creativity, shape, and color.
God speaks all of these
languages and more. Often he
speaks them through you in a way
that resonates and feels natural.
This way is your vocational love
language: a way of operating
that connects with God’s way of
operating, a unique way in which
you image a working God.
Your capacity for reason, hand-
eye coordination, high emotional
intelligence, hospitable heart,
passion for justice, desire to serve,
or talent at repairing broken things
comes from him! These aptitudes
come from him, reflect him and
point back to him! God is a God
who is reason, coordination,
emotion, hospitality, justice, service
and the repairer of all broken things.
So when you express the
unique vocational capacities that
you’ve been given, you’re using a
language that God already knows;
your vocational love language is in
a very real sense connected to his!
Maybe you’re good with working
with your hands; you have an ability
to transform abstract ideas into
concrete creations. Whether in the
studio, on the factory floor, or at the
construction site, whenever you do
this kind of work, you should know
that you are imaging the God who
built the material cosmos . . . all
from one big idea!
Maybe you’re good with data;
you have an empirical way of
engaging with and reading reality.
Whether you are in the lab or in
the accounting department when
you do this kind of work, you affirm
that you were made by the God of
all data, the one who created the
data in the first place. Your way of
working images an empirical God.
He made your mind so that it was
amenable to knowing him through
the data-generating universe that
he made!
Perhaps creativity is your
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