1. Realize that all work is a gift given to us from God.  There was work in the garden of Eden before the Fall (Gen. 1:28).  We are serving God in almost everything we do, if we do it in faith and love for God.  We can be satisified in everything we do. 
2. God has gifted each of us with certain abilities.  If we use those gifts in thankfulness, we will be satisfied that we are doing what we were created and saved for.
3. God has built us to serve the needs of others.  It is natural that those who serve others will be most satisified.  Still, all professions can serve others, either in what they do, or in taking care of the needs of others.  "He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have soemthing to share with one who has need" (Ephesians 5:28).
4. Giving your life to serve Christ in your talents means that you must cultivate and improve on your abilities.  We awant work that is specialized and unique to the way God has created us.

"Today's Europeans are Inquisitors without a cause."

 

"But one does sense that Europe's Muslims are living on borrowed time."

"And, of course, there's blame on every side. Immigrants don't want to assimilate, but neither do Europeans really want them to assimilate. The miraculous North American model, in which 'America makes Americans,' has no counterpart in Europe. For all their pacifist masquerading, Europeans remain really good haters--you can still smell the smoke of the ovens of Auschwitz."

 

Later, "Native Europeans despise Muslims, while Muslim immigrants despise Europeans and their values."

 

Later, "But American civilization and European civilization are profoundly different and ever more divergent."

 

Later, "When their welfare is sufficiently threatened, Europeans will return to form as heartless killers and ethnic cleansers."

 

And finally, "The whole Eurabia/"the-Muslims-are-taking-over" hysteria is nuts. Even if Swedes will no longer fight for Lutheranism, by God, they'll kill without remorse to keep their saunas."

"The Islamists are, in fact, correct that Europe is culturally degenerate. I don't mean this in the moral sense--people are people, with the same urges everywhere, and all puritanical societies are hypocritical societies; rather, I find Europe spiritually and ethically degenerate--but that leads us back to the potential for a new 'Great Awakening.'"

We often like to think that prayer get God to do what we want Him to do.  God becomes a cosmic bellboy to satisfy our desires.  Why else would we become so upset when He does not answer.  But this is not the biblical description of God who does not change (James 1:17).  Prayer changes our wills and conforms them to the same will as God.  E. Stanley Jones was a famous missionary and intellectual of the last century.  He captured the way that prayer changes our will when he wrote:

“If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore?  Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.”

The Son of God became the Son of Man that we, the sons of men, might become the children of God.

What are we? The answer is that we are ‘called the children of God,’ and there is a sense in which this is so staggering and so overwhelming that we find it almost impossible to accept it, and to retain the idea in our minds. Yet that is what is said about Christians everywhere in the New Testament. Let us never again think of the Christian as just someone who is trying to live a good life, trying to be a little bit better than somebody else, a person with a belief in doing certain things, going through certain forms and ceremonials and keeping certain regulations dictated by the church. Christians do all that, but before all that is this vital fact that they are children of God. They have been born again, born from above, born of the Spirit; they have received something of the very nature and life of God Himself. They are transformed people, they are a new creation, and they are thus absolutely, essentially different from those who have not experienced that. That is the very basic thing which the New Testament everywhere emphasises concerning the Christian.

In our Young Adult Care Group I mentioned that I heard that the tongue was the strongest muscle in the human body.  Accroding to Wikipedia, it is not the strongest muscle by any way of measurement.  This distinction goes to the human jaw, the quadriceps femoris, the gluteus maximus, or the uterus.

Still, I can kill someone with my tongue, something I cannot do with such power with those other muscles (see James 3:1-12).