Work Is A Gift Of GraceSample

You Are Light 

Our workplace is a place where we share our faith by living it out in front of our coworkers. We are to do the work well and with integrity so that we are "the light" to our workplace. We can show God’s love to those we work with. God uses the gift of our work to care for ourselves, our families, the less fortunate, and the church.  We should be sharing our faith in Christ with those around us. 

Our work has an instrumental and intrinsic value. The instrumental value means that through our work, we have the opportunity to accomplish another deeper goal. We see this through a practical application of caring for ourselves and others. The work that we do has value to God as well. The intrinsic value is that the work is valuable to God. Through our occupation, we are accomplishing God’s work in His creation. We are doing the work that God desires for us to do in order to fulfill the mandate to tend and care for His creation. Work is an intrinsically good thing because God ordained it. When we work with excellence, we are reflecting God, and serving Him through that work. All valid work is sacred to God and it is done in service to Him. Viewing work from both instrumental and intrinsic value can radically change how we perceive it. When we see our work as a gift from God, we begin to view it in its proper perspective: all of us are in full-time ministry because it is our service to the Lord. We serve Christ full-time. How we place value in our work and use the platform we have, is an opportunity to make Christ known. 

This may be a new perspective for you on work. You are abundantly graced by God and your workplace is where you are called to serve. It is time to treat your job as a gift of grace from the Lord. We are called by Him to tend and care for His Creation. We are called to work and care for ourselves and others. 

God refines you in your workplace. This is where you spend most of your time and effort, but it is where God also spends His time and effort with you. He is molding and shaping you into the image of Christ: who by the way- was and is a worker.

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