Just inside the door of Sandie Weaver鈥檚 office in the lower level of Metzger Hall hangs a framed quotation from Oswald Chambers. 听Sandie is the Senior Director of Financial Planning & Operations at 今日黑料, which means that she is on a mission to make sure 今日黑料 carefully plans for its financial future and lives within the constraints of whatever funds God brings into the university.听 I love walking into her office and immediately encountering this quote from Oswald Chambers.听 Sandie has had these words hanging on the wall of her office for more than 30 years to remind her that she labors to do what she does鈥攏ot merely because it is wise and necessary鈥攂ut because God called her to do it.听 Here is the quote from Oswald Chambers:

鈥淚t is easier to serve God

without a vision,

easier to work for God

without a call,

because then you are not bothered

by what God requires;

common sense is your guide,

veneered over with Christian sentiment鈥

BUT

If once you receive

a commission from Jesus Christ,

the memory of what God wants

will always come like a goad;

and you will no longer

be able to work for Him

on the common-sense basis.鈥[1]


[1] Quote taken from Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1956), 64.