Work is not a punishment. God did not create work as drudgery, but as a gift of fulfillment to life.
The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it (Genesis 2:15). God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number, fill the earth, and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28). The sun rises… then man goes out to his work, to his labor until evening (Psalm 104:23).
God created an order to things to help man accomplish this task. But God did not wash His hands of the work still to be done.
God said, “So, I declared on oath in My anger, they shall never enter My rest.” And yet His work has been finished since the creation of the world. For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His work” (Hebrews 4:3-4). Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at His work to this very day; and I, too, am working” (John 5:17).
Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life (John 6:27). For night is coming, when no one can work (John 9:4). The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work (1 John 3:8). By this kind of hard work we must help the weak (Acts 20:35).
Team work divides the effort and multiplies the effect.
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward (Colossians 3:23). “See to it that you complete the work you have received in the Lord” (Colossians 4:17). For you call on a Father who judges each man’s work impartially (1 Peter 1:17).
Fire will test the quality of each man’s work (1 Corinthians 3:13). Always give yourself fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain (1 Corinthians 15:58), also to everyone who joins in the work, and labors at it (1 Corinthians 16:16).
The whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love as each part does its work (Ephesians 4:16), according to His power that is at work within us (Ephesians 3:20). Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you (Philippians 2:12-13), that we may work together for the truth (3 John 8).
There is a dynamic multiplication factor in unity of numbers. Imagine what God could do with a unified church!
May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands, O Lord – yes, establish the work of our hands (Psalm 90:17).
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