The article What is Important Enough to Warrant my Life’s Devotion? Vocational advice for Christians attending college by Harold Heie; talks about what in life really matters to God. Heie asks the question is his career choice really important to God, and does it matter. He thought he was making his career important to God because he was donating a portion of his wages. Eventually Heie realized that it was not enough because what his company was making he was not comfortable with; he felt God would have been upset with what he was doing. He says, “But, I never asked myself the question: In light of God’s redemptive purposes, should I work for a company that produces guidance systems for ballistic missiles?” (Heie p.35). People use their skills in ways God did not plan, so what they are doing is not important to God and should not be a way of life.
Analysis
Heie’s article is a very good one that describes how he feels about his career choice, and what it means to God. Heie is an engineer at an aircraft company; there they make technology that is a part of deadly weapons. Throughout the article he relates everything back to his career and…show more content… I wanted to be an accountant and I had that idea for a few years; my biggest problem with being in the business field is how cut throat it is. Like in Heie’s article he talks about making the guidance system for the missiles, and how he felt uncomfortable with it in how God viewed it; that is how I felt becoming an accountant. I knew how cutthroat it can be and the lengths people go to become the best. I was afraid that if I wanted to become an accountant, I would not be able to live a morally righteous lifestyle. Through more research and looking at colleges I figured out that there is certain types of accounting and certain businesses where I would be capable of becoming successful, but still be able to live the Christian lifestyle that I wanted to
