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“Working for fulfillment is better than working for money.  The purpose of a job is work, not money.” – Dr. Myles Monroe

In our final look at work, it is only fitting that we return to it’s biblical wisdom and understanding, so brilliantly captured by the late Dr. Myles Monroe in his book, Releasing Your Potential.  As an interesting side note, in 2012 my wife Cynthia and I went on our first cruise out of Miami and into the Caribbean.  One of our land excursions was to Freeport in the Bahamas.  Dr. Monroe’s ministry was located in the Bahamas. The picture herein is yours truly holding this particular book in Dr. Monroe’s home area of influence.

To be unaware of something is to be ignorant.  To learn something to be true and choose to ignore it, as if unaware, is foolishness.  In the 13th chapter of his text, entitled Understanding Work, Dr. Monroe highlights the principles we need to truly grasp as he contrasts the scriptural perspective of work with what the world system teaches.  May we go ahead and copy his summarized list of work-enlightening nuggets:

  1. The achievement of greatness requires work.
  1. Labor delivers your potential.
  1. Work is… activated strength and energy, the effort required to bring something to pass, the use of your abilities and faculties to do or perform something, and the means to produce a desired result.
  1. Faith without work is unproductive.
  1. God designed you to fulfill your purpose by working.
  1. Work multiplies your resources, be they large or small.
  1. Idleness invites the company of lazy people.
  1. The release of your potential is dependent upon your expenditure of the necessary effort to change your thoughts into visible realities.

So family and friends, in conclusion, let’s be encouraged to especially study the scripture directly or supplementary books like Releasing Your Potential to gain further evidence of what God’s favored four letter word – WORK means for us personally!!   As we do, we’ll be reminded of this….Potentially, We are God’s workmanship!!

Gen 2:15; Eph 2:10; Prov 13:4; Phil 4:13; 1 Tim 5:8; Prov 16:3