Most of Your Waking Life
Most adults will spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else. If God only cares about Sunday, then He does not care about most of your life. Many Christians live as if that were true. They worship for an hour and then spend the week doing something they believe has nothing to do with God.
Scripture says otherwise. The Bible opens with God at work, and it puts man to work before sin ever enters the story. The Son of God spent years at a trade: Is not this the carpenter? (Mark 6:3). And Paul's words reach every job there is.
“And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;”COLOSSIANS 3:23 · KJV
Whatsoever covers the register, the classroom, the job site, the cockpit, and the kitchen sink. Whether your job is your dream or just pays the bills, you can serve Christ in it.
Scripture cares less about your title than about your Master.
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For Deeper Study
- Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's WorkAmazon Timothy Keller with Katherine Leary AlsdorfA thoughtful study of work, the curse, and the Gospel. Keller was Presbyterian and was open to an old earth, which we reject. Read with care.
- How Then Should We Work?Amazon Hugh WhelchelA short introduction to the biblical story of work. Reformed.
- Redeeming Your TimeAmazon Jordan RaynorA practical book on using your hours under the Lordship of Christ, by a Christian entrepreneur.
- The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your LifeAmazon Os GuinnessAn evangelical Anglican writer on God's call to all of life, and on the error of ranking sacred work above ordinary work.
- Foxe's Book of MartyrsAmazon John FoxeThe classic Protestant record of those who died for the faith, from the early church to the English Reformation.
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How Christians Decide Right and Wrong
Christians decide right and wrong by God's Word, not by feeling or the crowd: they obey what He has commanded, apply what He has taught, train the conscience, seek wisdom and counsel, and use their liberty in love.
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