{"id":7065133,"date":"2026-09-23T20:53:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/som2nypost.com\/uncategorized\/bringing-value-to-work-heart-treasure\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:53:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:53:57","slug":"bringing-value-to-work-heart-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/som2nypost.com\/?p=7065133","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Value to Work \u2013 Heart Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"


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We get up, to go to work, to earn the money, to buy the food, to have the energy to go to work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI owe, I owe, so off to work I go.\u201d\u00a0 Work can seem pointless at times.\u00a0 We see this around us, as we identify a blue Monday, and celebrate Friday (TGIF) as the end of a workweek. \u00a0People generally don\u2019t find satisfaction at work.<\/p>\n

God designed work.<\/strong> <\/span><\/h3>\n

Right in the beginning we see God working and then He gave work to Adam in the garden,\u00a0 to tend it and care for it (Genesis 2).\u00a0 However, a serpent and sin destroyed the nature of work<\/strong>, and the beauty of work was lost to us.\u00a0 But not the work. \u00a0Now all of mankind still works.\u00a0 Even Jesus worked, stating \u201cIt is finished,\u201d when His work on earth was done.<\/p>\n

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For many of us the joy, the meaning, the blessings and the sense of fulfilment that comes from working, is missing. Instead, work is viewed as something to be endured, not enjoyed. It is almost viewed as a necessary part to be alive. We work to live. We live to work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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God also works, and reveals Himself to us through His work<\/strong>.\u00a0 Romans 1:20 says: \u201cFrom the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. They can clearly see his invisible qualities \u2013 his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing God<\/em>.\u201d Romans 1:20 (NLT).<\/p>\n

His work, brings Him satisfaction<\/strong> (Gen 1:31) \u201cIt is good.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Work is meant to bring us satisfaction too<\/span><\/strong>, since we are created in His image.\u00a0 Jesus cancelled the effect of sin by His death on the cross, and so redeems work and makes it possible to enjoy our work again.\u00a0 Paul explains how in Col 3:23(NLT) :<\/p>\n

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\u201cWork hard and cheerfully at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Work is all about worshiping\u00a0God in our work.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n

Martin Luther understood this when he wrote, \u201cThe maid who sweeps her kitchen is doing the will of God just as much as the monk who prays\u2014not because she may sing a Christian hymn as she sweeps but because God loves clean floors. The Christian shoemaker does his Christian duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n

When we do our work well, and with excellence, for God\u2019s glory,<\/strong><\/span> that is when work becomes worship<\/strong><\/span> and it finds value in eternity.\u00a0 Work should be done with excellence.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cYou are to render service, as to the Lord,<\/u> and not to men.\u201d<\/em> (Eph. 6:6-7<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Work is not a punishment.<\/strong> <\/span><\/h3>\n

God did not create work as drudgery, but as a gift to bring about fulfilment to life. A human being \u201c\u2026can do nothing better than\u2026find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without Him, who can eat or find enjoyment.\u201d<\/em> (Ecc. 2:24-25<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

All professions and all kinds of work, assuming they are legal and biblically ethical, are honorable before the Lord. There is no difference between sacred and secular work.<\/strong> All work brings glory to God and fulfillment to us, if it is done to God\u2019s glory. \u00a0(1 Cor. 10:31<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

We may put ourselves under pressure to do the \u201cLord\u2019s work,\u201d but God considers ALL the work we do: the Lord\u2019s work<\/span><\/strong>, if it is done in worship and excellence.\u00a0 God does not differentiate when it comes to work, he understands that all work needs to get done by someone.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\"\"<\/a>Moses prayed: \u201c<\/em>May the favour\u00a0of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us\u00a0\u2013<\/em> yes, establish the work of our hands.\u201d (Psalm 90:17)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For Moses, the chief evidence of God\u2019s favor, was what God did with the work of their hands on a daily basis.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 Did He take what they did and establish it, make it last, make it count? \u00a0This should be our prayer everyday:<\/p>\n

Lord, may the work of my hands bring You glory today.\u00a0 May I do it well and with excellence for you and not for men. May my attitude to work be that this is how I worship You, with work done for You. Establish my work Lord, make it last that I may know that Your favor rests on me.<\/em><\/p>\n