Money & Finances
I start dreading Monday around Saturday afternoon, but this salary is the only thing keeping my family afloat. Does God see me stuck in this?
“And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.”
This psalm is attributed to Moses, who spent forty years in Midian keeping another man's sheep before anything significant happened to him. The prayer here is that God would establish the work of our hands, which is a request for ordinary labour to be given weight and permanence. It assumes work that feels short lived and forgettable, and asks God to make something lasting of it anyway.
“Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.”
Paul is answering Corinthians who wanted to know whether becoming a Christian required changing their circumstances. His word to the people with the least freedom of all, household slaves, is careful. Do not let your situation define you before God, and if a legitimate route out opens, take it. He refuses both false contentment and reckless escape. Constraint is real, and it is not the whole story.
A path forward
Give one hour a week to a concrete exit path: a course, an application, a conversation with someone doing work you would want. An hour a week is survivable and it changes the story you tell yourself.
Name one thing in the job you can genuinely do well and offer that part to God each morning as you arrive. Dread shrinks slightly when the day has been handed to someone.
Protect one part of the week that has nothing to do with work, and defend it as seriously as you would defend a shift. Rest is not a reward for escaping; it is what makes the waiting survivable.
Closing verse
“And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.”
- Ecclesiastes 3:13
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