Honor God in Your Work

Some people said that I am a workaholic ( a Big NO!) for having two jobs. I enjoy my job and i think its the imporatnt part of it. Working as a youth advocate fulfill my want to serve others and teaching makes me really glad especially seeing your students learning and appreciating you.

Five days of work a week in the morning and six nights a week, it is not tiring but its wonderful and I feel very blessed.

We have a community blog on my work and my fellow teachers always inspire me with their life lessons and experiences. Let me share to you this one, I know this will surely inspire you, too…

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HeaveNs calendar has seven Sundays a week. God sanctifies each day.

He conducts holy business atall hours and in all places. He uncommons the common by turni
ng kitchen sinks into shrines,
cafés into convents, and nine-to-five workdays into spiritual adventures.

Workdays? Yes, workdays. He ordained your work as something good. Before he gave Adam a

wife or a child, even before he gave Adam britches, God gave Adam a job.
-Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it- (Gen. 2:15 NASB).
Innocence, not indolence, characterized the first family.

God views work worthy of its own engraved commandment:
-You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest- (Exod. 34:21 NASB).
We like the second half of that verse. But emphasis on the day of rest might

cause us to miss the command to work: -You shall work six days.
- Whether you work at home or in the marketplace, your work matters to God. And your work matters to society. We need you! Cities need plumbers. Nations need soldiers.

Stoplights break. Bones break. We need people to repair the first and set the second. Someone

has to raise kids, raise cane, and manage the kids who raise Cain.

Whether you log on or lace up for the day, you imitate God. Jehovah himself worked for the

first six days of creation. Jesus said, -My Father never stops working, and so I keep working, too- (John 5:17 NCV).
Your career consumes half of your lifetime. ShouldNt it broadcast God?

DoNt those forty to sixty hours a week belong to him as well?

The Bible never promotes workaholism or an addiction to employment But God unilaterally

calls all the physically able to till the gardens he gives.

God honors wOrk. So honor God in your wOrk. -There is nothing better for a man than to
eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good- (Eccles. 2:24 NASB).

Here is the biG idea:

Use your uniqueness (what you do)
to make a big deal out of God (why you do it)
every day of your life (where you do it).

At the convergence of all three, youLL find the cure for the common life:

yOuR swEEt spOt.