The Lord gives His blessing to men while they are busy with their callings. Jacob’s faithful service to his uncle Laban moved God to bless him (Gen. 31:42). Joseph’s faithfulness to his master Potiphar was done in remembrance of God, who advanced him to be ruler in Egypt (Gen. 39:2). Moses was keeping his father-in-law’s sheep when God appeared to him in the bush, and appointed him a prince over his people (Ex. 3:1-2). David was sent for from the field, where he was keeping his father’s sheep, when he was anointed to be king over Israel (1 Sam. 16:11). Elisha was plowing when he was anointed to be a prophet (1 Kings 19:19). The shepherds were watching their sheep when that good news was brought to them that the Savior of the world was born (Luke 2:8). Not to insist on any more particulars, the promise of God’s protection is restrained to our callings, for the charge which God has given to the angels, concerning man, is to keep him in all his ways (Ps. 91:11).

William Gouge, Building a Godly House: A Holy Vision for Family Life, 22.