Entourage Part 2

We are pushing closer to launching our entourage series for the fall. As I dig deeper into the text we are using for the first week, more things about the disciples calling have surfaced. I love that Matthew Henry (what's up bibleworks) writes that before they were called by Christ, they were working at the calling they already had. Peter, Andrew, John and James were (at least the text seems to paint them as such) diligent workers, busting their rears in a hard job. They were about the business that had been appointed to them. They weren't sulking because they had a crappy job in the tatooine of the Middle East. They weren't lazy. They were working. Henry goes on to ask his readers "are you working in your calling?" Are we diligent working where we are? Do we display the characteristics of hard laborers, sweating and striving to do the difficult work of following Christ? The portrait our culture paints of vocational ministry often seems to mirror the picture it paints of corporate executives. And we like that. Who really dreams of hard manual labor for low pay? However, the men who Jesus called had the mindset of blue collar laborers. They understood what hard work was. It has caused me to ask, how can I LABOR for the kingdom? Where do I need to sweat more? Where have I gotten lazy?