Do artists & designers enjoy reading of the designs for the Tabernacle etc?
Do Solicitors enjoy reading the laws in Leviticus etc?
Does your profession help you enjoy parts of the Bible?
If so please tell.
Friday, 16 January 2009
About Boaly
Gary has been involved in printing the Scriptures for 20 years, enjoys photography and rambling online
8 comments:
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I'd say your right...I was a Building Surveyor and I used to like the temple details, visualise them etc...
On another trivial pursuit type matter, did you know that God came up with Building Regulations and Health and Safety (obvious really)....
Deuteronomy 22:8 “8 “When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it.”
- Roof edge protection...yet it only became law in Northern Ireland recently and only then where there was going to be maintenance! -
10:31 am
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Class! Dunno why but I'm laughing at that. Its not really a suprise that God should be ahead of the game on building regulations etc.
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11:04 am
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my job is very detailed (i plan the assembly line for an automobile manufacturing plant). the more i learn about all the details that go into the assembly process, the more it makes me astonished that God is intricately concerned with every detail of our lives.
our lives, like my job on most days, are very detailed and complicated. there typically isn't one easy answer to anything we're going through or learning...
but God not only cares about the details of our lives, He is sovereignly reigning over each one of them. -
6:28 pm
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Amen, Emily your statement "but God not only cares about the details of our lives, He is sovereignly reigning over each one of them." Absolutely thrilled me
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6:32 pm
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Yes, the Bible has great application to my [former] job as a nurse. When I was a young nurse in the hospital, I was very focused on the task at hand and was always distressed if I got waylaid by a long-winded patient or a lonely one, or an especially needy one, wanting to get all my patients seen, and my paperwork done, and reports written in a timely manner.
Over the years, I became much more aware of God's hand in all of it, and would often pray for patience and wisdom in doing my job. It got so that it was never an inconvenience to spend extra time with any patient, because I would figure it's all God's time, and He can be the boss of my shift and make sure I got the "really important" stuff done.
I went on to do Labor & Delivery which was loads of fun, and the Bible certainly had great application there---what a privilege to get to witness his creation up close; When things go badly (which is rare) it was also an immense comfort to be able to truly help others to take heart and find meaning in tragedy [to the extent that they could allow].
I then was a hospice nurse for a few years--my favorite area of nursing--, and again a privilege to both know and apply God's word. Plus, I met a lot of people I will see and know one day in heaven.
I feel fortunate to have been in a profession where God's Word is such truth and comfort....what does not make sense in the world and in this life, is completely understood and made perfect by God in His way and in His time. I don't think I could have enjoyed my 20 year nursing career nearly as much without his word to guide and direct. -
12:11 am
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Heartafire, thats some nursing career you've had(20 years in various areas of nursing).
Brilliant to see God's Word affecting how you thought & worked throughout it, thanks for telling about it.
I know a few nurses & hope they find this helpful & encouraging. -
7:50 am
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Mine is a little shallower: as a newspaperman, I write a lot of features and columns and such, and I find dropping in the occasional phrase from the King James Bible leaves readers thinking, "That sounds familiar; where have I heard it before?"
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7:59 pm
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I wouldn't say writing for a newspaper is shallow, unless its one of the tabloid ones like the daily star we have here, then yeh i'd agree haha!
Newspapers keep people informed of the news & current affairs etc. -
8:16 pm
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