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As We Begin 2016 - It's the first day back to Work

Monday, the first Monday in 2016...and you are probably diving into work - whether on the farm, in the office, on the road, or at home... the holidays are over and it is time to get back to work.

I don't know if it has ever hit you:
Work is sacred...
Work is God's provision...
Work is a way of making the world better...for yourself and others to prosper, and for you to understand that God wants to involve you.

Genesis 2:15
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Every year I make a decision to do something that will last the whole year. After a couple of years away from it I'm going to read the through the Bible again. It's not that difficult to do if we understand that it is only 3-4 chapters of Scripture a day.

I'm reading the scriptures as a way of studying God's Word...and as a way of understanding God - the one who has given me my Work.

I have been reading and studying scripture for 45 years now.  I don’t pretend to know it enough so that I don’t have to keep working at it.  I love my work, and consider it a privilege and honor to have the ability to teach God’s word – and also a responsibility to do it well.

Those of us who have the privilege of teaching God’s word have a sacred responsibility. 

Do we realize that God will hold us to a higher standard when we tell others what God says in his word?

Do we understand that we speak forth either truth that will lead to freedom, or traditions that will not help anyone?

I love my work…and it doesn’t make any difference whether it’s as a teacher of God’s word, or as a farmer with cattle, an office worker filing or a technician fixing…and most of all, a parent who stays at home and raises children. 

We have a sacred duty to see that God is connected to our work.


What is your work? Whatever it is, do it with all your heart, "as unto the Lord"...as if you were working for one person - the Lord.

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