you see, GOD says I want you to work because you were created to work. then what is the curse? well in genesis chapter three where sin entered the earth, GOD then said that your work would be painful.
folks, work is not a curse, it is a blessing. the curse, the pain is the drudgery, the disappointment and all of the hardness of work, the discouragement that comes from work, the difficulty in work.
but work is GOD's idea and GOD wants to bless you through your job. we need to get a whole different understanding of that. not, well, i just work as a necessary evil. no work is GOD's idea.
JESUS said in john 5.17 (niv), my FATHER is always at HIS work to this very day, and I too am working.
GOD works, JESUS works. do you want to be like GOD and JESUS? that is the goal of the CHRISTian life. working is GODly.
we are also to work to supply our needs.
now that is the reason we usually think of. it supplies my needs, it meets the needs of my family, it keeps me from being a burden on others.
paul says in 2 thessalonians in the 3rd chapter, verses 7 and 8 (niv), we were not idle when we were with you...on the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
paul is saying, hey nobody can accuse me of being a freeloader. he says, i work hard for my money. i'm self-supporting. i'm not a parasite. i don't depend on hand-outs.
how many of you would agree that our society is full of freeloaders?
just a thought from the front porch…
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