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b'Today I want to focus particularly on understanding what it means to live meaningfully in the place God calls you to. What does God think about what you do? Not so much what you do here in this church on Sundays, important as that is, but what you do the rest of today, and the rest of the week. The other 166 hours. What about your job, your work, your family, your hobbies, the little things that bring you joy and make life interesting for you? What does God think about those things? And how do those things fit in with God\\u2019s calling on your life?\\n\\nWhat does God think about your leisure activities, or your school work, your eating habits, your sleeping habits, how you manage your home or business, and how you take care of your children? What does God think about those things? The everyday, mundane, trivial things that fill our time and make up what it means just to be \\u201chuman.\\u201d Do those things really matter to God? And how do they fit in with the calling of God? These questions may have been burning a hole in your mind for a long time now. So let\\u2019s examine the subject to see whether we can gleam anything useful or beneficial.\\n\\nMost of you love your jobs and find it hard to see how you could feel close to being fulfilled doing anything else. But you always get the impression from fellow Christians that doing business or work doesn\\u2019t matter to God as much as things like prayer, and church, and Bible reading, and mission trips, and other more \\u201cspiritual\\u201d pursuits. What\\u2019s more, the heroes of the faith that you heard about in church weren\\u2019t businessmen, or high school students, or elderly bed-ridden people. Neither were they homemakers, bankers or lawyers, or regular people like that. They were saints, monks, missionaries, pastors, and other types of people who had committed full-time to serving the Lord. So you may be excused for feeling a little second-rate at times. After all, if you were really serious about God and His mission then you wouldn\\u2019t be in a regular job. Would you? Some Christians even say that working a job was good for paying the bills, \\u201cbut it was not going to count for anything in eternity.\\u201d'