The Daily Word

 

I worked in the IT departments at the Copper Works for 20 + years and then got made redundant. With a young family and a mortgage, I had to find another job. To do that, one of the first actions necessary was to produce a CV so I would be of interest to future potential employers. It defined, possibly in somewhat exaggerated detail, what I had achieved in my working career.

Becoming self-employed some 30+ years ago, I still had to use a CV to get new work, at least for the first 10 years. Again, it defined my qualifications and experience so that it might fit with where I wanted to obtain my business from. A CV is always about a person’s achievements, skills, qualifications, and experience.

If we were asked to write a CV about our spiritual qualifications, what ought it contain? Well, in 1 Corinthians 4 and verse 7, we have a perfect answer: “What have you got that you did not receive?” Nothing that is of any value to God can we present to Him of our own selves. Paul could say, after he was converted, all that he did and was before that event was of no value at all, worthless rubbish. And that should be exactly the same for each one of us. Whatever talents we have, God has given us. However far we have progressed spiritually, God has given us. We even recognise that our very lives and all they contain has been given by God. ‘Where is boasting?’ Paul asks, and answers his own question, ‘It is excluded’. Our spiritual CV should say, ‘ All my life is given and maintained by God’, anything else and our spiritual CV is of no value.

Article written by Brian Preston, Elder @SFGH Church