{"id":29539,"date":"2024-01-10T21:14:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T04:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2023-everyday-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-01-10T21:33:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T04:33:35","slug":"2024-work","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2024-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Work Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

Your Work Matters<\/em><\/h4>\n

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God views work worthy of its own engraved commandment. \u201cYou shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest<\/strong>\u201d (Exodus 34:21 NASB). Whether you work at home or in the marketplace, your work matters to God<\/strong>. And your work matters to society. Cities need plumbers. Bones break. We need people to repair the first and set the last. Someone has to raise kids, raise cane, and manage the kids who raise cane.<\/p>\n

So whether you log on or lace up for the day, you imitate God. Jesus said, \u201cMy Father never stops working, and so I keep working, too<\/strong>\u201d (John 5:17 NCV).\u00a0<\/em>Your career consumes half of your lifetime. Shouldn\u2019t it broadcast God? Don\u2019t those forty to sixty hours a week belong to him as well?<\/p>\n

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Set Apart for a Special Work<\/em><\/h4>\n

\u201cThe child is the father of the man<\/strong>,\u201d wrote William Wordsworth. Want direction for the future? Then read your life backward.<\/p>\n

Job placement experts asked over seventy thousand people this question: \u201cWhat things have you done in life that you enjoyed doing and believe you did well?<\/strong>\u201d In every case people reverted to the same pattern of functioning. Or to put it succinctly, our past presents our future.<\/p>\n

The Bible says, \u201cIt is God himself who has made us what we are and given us new lives from Christ Jesus; and long ages ago he planned that we should spend these lives helping others<\/strong>\u201d (Ephesians 2:10 TLB).\u00a0You are heaven\u2019s custom design. What God said about Jeremiah, he said about you. \u201cBefore you were born, I set you apart for a special work<\/strong>\u201d (Jeremiah 1:5 NCV).<\/p>\n

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