You are free to retire from your current employment, however a disciple of Christ always has work to do that helps evangelize the world and make disciples of men inside and outside of the secular workplace. Total abstinence from work is not God’s plan for anyone nor healthy for your body. Though you may take a short period of rest to replenish, the LORD definitely has work for you to do in and outside of usual Church activities. You will find that some of these activities will allow you to use your skills and gifting in a way that produce income that helps you fund the kingdom and build wealth when properly managed.
Understand that work performed before and after retirement from your current occupation must meet the same parameter in order to be pleasing to the LORD; it is in a legitimate, non-sinful venue that is helpful to others. This comes in many different forms such as work you are paid to do (sometimes extraordinarily) to volunteer work done for your church, charity, or organizations. Sometimes, it is work many people refuse to recognize like interceding in order that a pathway for the will of God will be open for the church, the world, and other people’s lives. Many people do not understand that this work is as useful and necessary as other legitimate types of work and that some are called by God to this work and will be handsomely compensated for it by Him and leaders that understand His will and its great usefulness.
When you seek to please Him more than to please men He highly favors you and looks upon your good work produced by faith in legitimate venues. No doubt He’s glad when your work pleases your superiors and helps other people. This does not change after you retire from your current occupation. It continues into future avenues for your good works to be employed. In other words retirement for a Christian is really refirement for the display of your gifts and skills in another earthly arena that you will use to support the Great Commission, directly by the service to others engaged by the work or indirectly by giving abundantly of the income produced by the work.
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Genesis 1:28, 2:15-17, Proverbs 10:4, 16-17, Romans 12:11-13, 2Thessalonians 3:6-10
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