A Hope-Filled Career

“Well, my plan is maybe a miracle will happen and everything will be fine. Which is what I think everyone has been thinking for two years. Just: I guess the plan is to just hope?

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Robert Pattinson has experienced a great deal of career success.  High profile roles like Edward in the Twilight series, Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter series, and most recently Batman advanced his career. But these parts were interspersed with less acclaimed films. He has had good years and bad years. And in a world where culture is shifting on a daily basis, it is challenging to project what roles will be a success and what roles won’t.
 
He knows that fame is fickle. And you are only as respected as your last role. Which makes your next role the most important.
 
Sure, his career options look wildly different from ours. But like you and I, a lot is left to the unknown, uncertain, and seeming to chance. In a recent interview with Men’s Health, Pattinson, opened up about career choices:
“I don’t want to make a mistake on what to do next. . . You just have to kind of think: Well, my plan is maybe a miracle will happen and everything will be fine. Which is what I think everyone has been thinking for two years. Just: Uhh, I guess the plan is to just hope?” 
Our career plans are not left to an uncertain hope, but to a certain one. We serve a God who opens and closes doors according to his will. allowing us to plan on a miracle.
 

Key Texts

Proverbs 16:3
Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.
 
Proverbs 19:21
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.
 
Jeremiah 17:7
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.
 
Colossians 3:23–24
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:11
and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,

Key Topics

career
future
God’s will
profession

Source

Source: Daniel Riley, “Metamorphosis,” GQ (3-1-22).

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