Work & Vocation
Parts of my job sit badly with me. I do not know whether to push back, live with it, or leave. How do I decide?
“But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.”
Daniel was a teenager in a training programme designed to reshape his identity, and he chose one specific point at which to draw a line rather than resisting every part of it. He also negotiated instead of staging a confrontation, asking for a trial period first. It is a careful act of conscience by someone who stayed inside the system and kept working there.
“All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.”
The Corinthians were arguing about meat from pagan temples, a live question about how far to participate in a compromised local economy. Paul refuses to reduce it to a list of permitted and forbidden acts. He introduces a harder test instead: what actually builds people up, and what your participation communicates to the people watching you.
A path forward
Write down precisely what troubles you and separate genuine wrongdoing from personal discomfort. The two need very different responses.
Bring the specific question to God and to one mature Christian who will not simply agree with you. Wisdom here rarely arrives on your own.
Identify the smallest change you could ask for and ask for it. Most workplaces will accommodate a calm and specific request long before it ever becomes a resignation.
Closing verse
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”
- James 1:5
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