The Office

"There is really no difference between laymen and priests, princes and bishops, "spirituals" and "temporals", as they call them, except that of office and work...
A cobbler, a smith, a farmer, each has the work and office of his trade,
and yet they are all alike consecrated priests and bishops, and everyone by means of his own work or office must benefit and serve every other, that in this way many kinds of work may be done for the bodily and spiritual welfare of the community,
even as all the members of the body serve one another."
(Martin Luther)

Every morning, I wake up, put on my working attire and walk over to work wondering at the back of my head, "Is this my office?".
It's a blistering question which bugs me every other morning when I sit at my little corner of my cubicle at work.

Martin Luther expounded the fact that whether we're seated in a "secular" office or a "spiritual" office, our sole purpose is still the same at the end of the day -- "benefit and serve every other" and to simply bring Him the glory He deserves.
Yet, I can't help but to wonder what my "destined" office should be.

Each time I deliberate on this topic, I sigh a dozen times over.
It gets a little frustrating -- standing and not knowing where to move.
Personally, I've never been a career-minded person.
All those climbing-the-corporate-ladder talk could never seem to interest me.
Sometimes, I just wish God would just give me an audible order to step into the "spiritual" office instead of where I am right now.
If only it's that simple.

"Brothers, each man, as responsible to God, should remain in the situation God called him to."
1 Cor. 7: 24

I know I should be giving my best at where I'm placed now; remaining in and with Him wherever and in whatever I do.
Somehow it seems hard.
It seems hard when you come home everyday feeling aimless and wasted, unsatisfied and unsure of what you were doing from 9am-5pm.
Yet, again and again, I'm reminded of a greater purpose beyond my being.

"Therefore the burning question for most Christians should be:
How can my life count for the glory of God in my secular vocation?
... Our aim is to joyfully magnify Christ -
to make him look great by all we do.
Boasting only in the cross, our aim is to enjoy making much of him by the way we work."
(Piper's "Don't waste your life")

To joyfully magnify Christ.
Just one adjective and it makes it one of the hardest thing to do.

Direct me, O Lord, I pray.