Work, Labour and Wages – Is your 9 to 5 job part of God’s plan? – Part 4
At times especially in this economic climate it can seem that we are running on the hamster wheel and never accomplishing much. We pick up in the morning where we left of the day before and the work just keeps coming, always piling up, but there never seems to be an end. The era of a sea of office cubicals, manufacturing assembly lines and the like seem to go on forever. At times we may ask ourselves; Is this what life is all about? Why am I doing this job? Is there a greater purpose behind our daily work, or are we just grinding away until we go back to the place we came from? This week we will talk about our daily work and how it fits into the bigger plan, using the Bible as the go to reference book of choice…cont’d.
I have often been told by a close elder, that when you work, do it for the Lord (Colossians 3:23). This ring’s true for everybody. It is kind of like saying “take pride in your work”. When we are not trying to please our human bosses, but trying to attain the “higher goal”, the “bigger vision”, it makes reaching that goal less stressful. As the Bible says, “seek first the Kingdom of God and all other things will be given to you” (Matthew 6:3). This subject of the Kingdom of God will be spoken of in more depth in another post.
More to come…
Darrell
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