Colossians 3: 23
Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men;
John 5: 16
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.
~ GLORIFY YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER ~
No matter what you do for work, doing the job well matters. It brings honor to you before men, and brings glory to God through your good works. Todays Footprint is to have joy in the work you do, as you do it for Him.
~Chris
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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Funny, Ann Voskamp from "A Holy Experience" posted an article for 'The High Calling of Our Daily Work,' on this topic.
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Nearly four hundred years ago, a man peeling potatoes as an act of worship, Brother Lawrence, said, "Our sanctification does not depend as much on changing our activities as it does on doing them for God, rather than ourselves." We don't need to change activities from monetary work to missionary work to be devout. That very construct is false. All Christians are in full-time ministry. So we can stop tearing our lives into the categories of worldly and spiritual. We can put away the scissors of selfish ambitions and self-seeking comfort and self interests. If our lives feel fragmented, it's because we are tearing up God's one-piece fabric.
We wear God's seamless silk when we mindfully offer everything we do as a sacrifice to God. Paul explained this clearly to the Romans: "So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering" (Rom. 12:1 MSG). When we see our lives as a sacrificial offering unto the Lord—avodah—our work becomes art and our art becomes ministry and our worship becomes serving and our serving becomes work.
Just as the "LORD our God is one LORD" (Deut. 6:4), so our God weaves all of life on only one loom, and there is only one word for the whole of lives rightly lived in sacrifice to Him.
100% pure Avodah.
*** a great follow-up to your post, Chris.
the entire article is here:
http://www.thehighcalling.org/Library/ViewLibrary.asp?LibraryID=5047
I try to remember this daily when I'm too tired, or don't really feel like being at work, or I have student telling me that they hate my guts. What I really need to think about is how I'm being perceived by my students and those I work with. I try to keep that light shinning, even on the dullest of days.
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