God Designed You to Work

June 30, 2009
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“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Ephesians 2:10 NIV).

Your work can be an act of worship. No matter what you do, it’s never just a job if you are a believer. This is because God designed you with talents, gifts, and interests that He wants used for His glory.

You are custom-made. There’s nobody like you in the whole world. And the gifts, the abilities, the talents, even the interests you have, they were genetically encoded into you by God. You didn’t have a say in what you were going to be interested in, what you are naturally good at. God made you with a specific mission in mind and He wants you to use the gifts He’s given you in your work.

The Bible says that you are God’s workmanship. The Greek word used for workmanship is poema; that’s where our word for “poem” comes from. You are God’s poem! You are God’s work of art. You are God’s masterpiece.

Your work is part of God’s plan for your life and that is why, as you work, you worship God.

by Rick Warren

  • Anonymous

    Wonderful blog topic: Work. Really work can be the answer to many things. You can nip boredom in the bud with some kind of agenda for each day. Getting off zero is the hard part.

    An occupation is an important spiritual act of dimension. We earn the the right to have something to give when we endevour to do something with our time, effort and talent and not mention our mental energy.

    And God says, him that will not work should not eat. That’s getting into the serious stuff- the grubb. But we should get understanding to be effective workers.

    Those who pay the price to prepare themselves for a better occupation, have paid the price and there’s no shortcut to a better occupation is you don’t have understanding.

    Sorry the path, to better understanding also requires work- diligent study. You really have to walk to get somewhere. God says, ask and it shall be given, seek and you shall find and or knock and it shall be

    opened, but you have to do it…you have to work at it.

    Passerby





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