Remember the parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30). It is God who gives us what we have to use, as best we can; and He doesn’t measure us by what someone else has been given. Be faithful where you are. Serve the Lord there. This is what pleases Him.

At Creation, God placed Adam in a garden that He had prepared for him (Genesis 2:8).

Adam’s responsibility was to work the garden, to keep it (Genesis 2:15).

With sin introduced into Creation, God told Adam that now the ground was cursed; with pain he would harvest crops, and thorns and thistles would make his work more difficult (Genesis 3:17-19).

Adam was a farmer. This was the first occupation.

He wasn’t a prophet, priest, or king, but a farmer.

And that was occupationally what God had for him to do: be a good farmer.

Work the soil, deal with the weeds and briars and fluctuations of the weather, and other things farmers have to do.

Your occupation right now is your “garden.”

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