Martyn Lloyd-Jones was speaking to a group of medical doctors, but this thought applies equally well to a good number of professions and professionals, not just to doctors (and grocers):
Somewhere in Pembrokeshire a tombstone is said to bear the inscription ‘John Jones, born a man, died a grocer.’ There are many whom I have had the privilege of meeting, whose tombstone might well bear the grim epitaph: ‘…born a man, died a doctor’! The greatest danger which confronts the medical man is that he may become lost in his profession…
Quoted in Iain Murray, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The Fight of Faith, 1939-1981, p. 335
The Doctor wasn’t too lost in his profession to heed the call to gospel ministry. And he wasn’t too lost in the gospel ministry to heed the call to be a husband and a father. What you do does not define you. What you are defines you, and what you do should flow out of that. There is a great danger in taking your identity from what you do rather than what Christ has done for you, and thus what you are in him.
