Read: Nehemiah 4

So we built the wall…, for the people had a mind to work. -Nehemiah 4:6

Some people, like the comic-strip character Beetle Bailey, work hard to avoid working.
In real life, we know that work, "makes the world go round." God placed Adam in
the Garden of Eden" to tend and keep it" (Gen. 2:15), which shows us that work
is essential to our well-being.

God wants us to work, and He wants us to put our hearts into what we do. That’s easy
for some people, like former Detroit Tiger baseball player Alan Trammell. He once said it
was easy for him to be enthusiastic about his work because he was paid for doing what he
would enjoy doing for nothing.

But how can a person put his heart into a job that is drearily monotonous, or so
stressful that it brings on high blood pressure or ulcers? The apostle Paul gave these
answers to followers of Christ: "Work with your own hands,…that you may lack
nothing" (1 Th. 4:11-12).

To another church he wrote, "Whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and
not to men" (Col. 3:23).

If you think of your job as a blessing by which you can provide for yourself and
others, and that your diligence is honoring to the Lord, you too will have "a mind to
work" (Neh. 4:6).

-Herbert Vander Lugt

 Whatever you are working on,

Engage in it with zest,

Because your work is for the Lord

And He expects your best. -Sper

WORK BECOMES WORSHIP WHEN YOU WORK FOR THE LORD.

 OUR DAILY BREAD, Copyright 1999 by Radio Bible Class,

Grand Rapids,Michigan. Used by permission.

 – Geo –

Edwardsburg, MI