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But go, if you would, to Ephesians chapter number 6, Ephesians chapter number 6. Because there are so many things in our life that are sort of like the Ark of the Covenant in the sense that we're doing it wrong and then we want to blame that thing instead of taking responsibility for ourselves and making a good situation out of whatever we're given. We need to be content with the things that we have. Now I'm not saying that we should never switch churches because sometimes there's a need to switch churches. Sometimes you need to switch jobs. Sometimes there's not a need to switch spouses. But there's a need to make changes of our house or our car or where we live. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about people who are just constantly switching. I'm not talking about people who make a logical switch that makes sense. I'm talking about people who just everywhere they go, they have problems. Every church they go. I mean people come to me, I've been thrown out of four churches and I'm thinking to myself, you're the problem. Yeah all these churches, they're all, you know, it's like no, it's you. You know, when you're fired from job after job after job or you're getting into a personality conflict with boss after boss after boss, you know, it's time to look in the mirror. The Ark of the Covenant's not the problem. You're doing it wrong. It's you that's the problem. Look at Ephesians chapter six verse five just in regard to a job. The Bible says in Ephesians six verse five, servants be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling and singleness of your heart. And here's the key, as unto Christ, not with I service as men pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart with good will, doing service as to the Lord and not to men. Now three times in a row he makes the same point. And when God is really repetitive like this, he's really trying to drive something in deep here when he says, do it at the end of verse five, as unto Christ, halfway through verse six, as the servants of Christ, verse seven, as to the Lord and not to men. So three times he says the same thing, work like you're working for Jesus. He says when you go to your job, and he's talking about your earthly, secular job, whether you're cutting the grass, cutting the trees, bending pipe, you know, framing a house, whatever computer program, whatever job you're doing, God says that we are to do it heartily in Colossians chapter four, as unto the Lord and not unto men. We should treat our job as if we are serving Jesus Christ. I mean that's what the Bible is saying over and over again. And a lot of times people think of their job as just kind of an unspiritual activity. But yet going to your job and working hard and doing a good job is actually service to God. It's actually obedience to God. It's a spiritual activity to go to your secular job and to give it your best and not to just go there, slack off, and give it half of your effort. And that's what the Bible is teaching you. Now this is a situation where a lot of people, they look at their job and they just think, well, it's this job that's the problem. But they're not giving it 100%. And that's really the problem. They're not thinking of their boss as, you know, well, it's not really him, it's Jesus that I'm working for. And if they did, they could actually make a lot more out of that job. They could actually succeed at that job. Because look what the Bible says in verse 8. It says, knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. What's the Bible saying? If we go to our job and work hard, God promises to repay us for that. Because you can sit there and say, well, if I go to my job and work hard, they're not going to reward me because I have a wicked and unfair boss that's not going to notice my effort and whether I give it half or whether I give it 100%, I'm going to get the same paycheck, it's a dead-end job, I'm not going anywhere. But here's the thing, God is not a dead-end God. It doesn't matter if you're in a dead-end job. If it's worth going to that job, then it's worth going there and giving it 100%. And you know what? When God looks down and sees you giving it 100% at your job, then he will make sure that you get paid. And if you don't get paid at that job, maybe he'll just work it out that he gives you a better job next time because he says, you worked so good at that job, I'm going to give you a better job and you'll make a ton of money at the next job and that will be to pay you for the good thing that you did at the first job. Because the Bible says, knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive, not necessarily from the earthly boss, but the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. So maybe you won't get paid this week, but in the long run, God will repay you for every good deed that you do and this is even in the context of your secular work. The work that you do for an earthly master on this earth. He says, you will receive the same of the Lord, whether you be bond or free. So instead of looking at that job, and look, if your job is really a bad job that's just a dead end, a worthless job, then get a new job by all means. Then get a job that you can get excited about. But you need to go to your job and give it 100%. And if you're going to job after job after job and nothing's working out, you need to look in the mirror. You're the problem. You need to become a hard worker. You need to get this Christ-like attitude toward your job.