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Define: Work


"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

We, professionals, sees our job/work in our own different perspectives. Some sees it as a blessing or may be curse. For some, as their source of identity. For some, work is their life. 


"Work" became so distorted among us. So let's try to clear and reset our settings on how we see this gift.

Work is not a curse. Work is not created when man sinned against God. We all know that God created work and He himself worked before sin came. Work became distorted because of sin. This mindset has caused us to become lazy in what we are doing. Mediocrity came also. Oftentimes we say, "pwede na yan" or "okay na yan" and so we don't give our best in what we are doing. Sometimes, we just wait for Fridays or paydays for us to be able to do what we really want to do. Sometimes we've burnt out our passions, forget the real reason why we're working thus, it makes us lazy and God doesn't want that: 


"Even while we were with you, we gave you this command: "Those unwilling to work will not get to eat." 2 Thessalonians 3:10 

Too much work? For even God in the seventh day rested so us not to be overworked. We should know our priorities. We may say that we are working for our family yet we don't give time to be with them because of work. We may say that we are working to glorify God yet we don't even give time to be with God because of too work. What's the worth of success in our career if we don't have God or the people we value the most?


For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? Mark 8:36

Work is not our source of self worth. Many of us became too much dependent on work, so they became too much arrogant when they're in the peak of their career and too depressed and lose life when work is taken away from them. Many trust only their work - that it is the only way that God would bless them and even limiting God's way of blessing them. Our identity and self worth should neither be based with our net worth nor in the position that we have in our work. Our identity and self worth should be based on Christ and we are the ones who should give our work its worth.





So how must we see work? 


As Genesis 2:15 says, God put Adam in the garden for him to cultivate and work it. 
Work is simply: God created work and give it to us so He could partner us in developing this world. We must work unto the Lord, whether it's in the secular or in church, and we should give it our best (Colossians 3:23) because God is our partner!  God gave us different passions, interest and personalities in accordance with His design; put us in different gardens; allow us to help others; and make us feel the fulfillment.

 “Work is the expenditure of energy (manual or mental or both) in the service of others, which brings fulfilment to the worker, benefit to the community, and glory to God.” - John Stott
Friday, November 11, 2011

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