SERMON ILLUSTRATION: Love Your Work like a Dog Chasing a Ball

SERMON ILLUSTRATION

Love Your Work like a Dog Chasing a Ball

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At the 2013 commencement speech at MIT, Drew Houston, the founder of Dropbox said:

When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: Their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way … So it's not about pushing yourself; it's about finding your tennis ball, the thing that pulls you.

So what is your tennis ball?

Possible Preaching Angles: (1) Work; Vocation; Calling; (2) Worth; Worship; Jesus Christ—This image also applies to how we should pursue and worship Christ. Obviously, Jesus is more than a tennis ball! And yet, he is the prize, the treasure, the goal that pulls us in our Christian life.

Network World staff, "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston's 2013 MIT commencement address transcript,"Network World (6-7-13)