R.C. Sproul

And then when they left and Dan Marino came, they had the best passer in America.

So he changed his whole pattern.

He changed his whole game plan to fit the personnel he had.

And companies do this all the time.

Change jobs.

They're going to die if they don't.

But we're always trying to increase the size of agreement between our abilities and our responsibilities.

And

The idea is to try to get a job where you have that match.

There are organizations, there's a Christian ministry out there that does an analysis of motivated ability patterns.

Many of our employees have gone through that system.

I went through it myself.

It's helped me enormously because everybody else has a wonderful plan for my life and they think that I should be doing this or that or this and I say, wait a minute, that doesn't fit my profile.

Now God does not always call us to do what we want to do.

Sometimes there's a war on, and you may not want to be a foot soldier, but foot soldiers are needed and the need constitutes the call.

And I don't want in any way to diminish the importance of doing things sometimes just out of duty.

But in terms of our life's work, I have a hunch, it's a feeling, it's just an educated guess,

that when God gives a person a call, a life's calling, He also gives them the gifts necessary, and He also does something with their motivation.

I mean, we cannot assume that God has called us to do work that we hate to do, because God's not stupid.

He knows that people tend to perform poorly when they're placed in an arena of non-motivated abilities.