Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.  Ecclesiastes 9:10

Have you ever asked yourself, “What work is most important?” Today’s message is designed to identify and discard the more probable human answers and make way for the only truth that satisfies such a superlative question.

Please understand that there certainly is nothing wrong with being self-employed or working for someone else, a just cause, or another company/organization. However, to place the highest focus on any of these without first acknowledging God’s creative and founding place in all of it is where many of us have room to grow. When Jesus’s contemporaries asked, “What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?” He was quick to explain the heart of the matter: “This is the work of God, that you believe on Him whom He hath sent” (John 6:29).  So the opening question of this message suddenly takes on a new light. Is working for myself, another, a just cause, or others more critical than working for God?

As believers—if we hold that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life—our thoughts and feelings should line up with the truth of what He says. According to the Lord, all our imagining, memories, thinking skills, meditating and flexing are secondary. The most important thing we can do is simply believe in Him. This is our most critical work.

While the idea is simple enough, it certainly doesn’t mean that walking it out will be easy. We can claim to believe yet not agree by upholding a confused thought life. Personal integrity that comes with a contrite attitude of heart must blend with the way God would have us think. Apostles Paul and Peter, John the Baptist, and most significantly, Jesus, were all known for their admonishing cry for repentance (rethinking).  In Romans 12:2, it reads, “We are not to be conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewing of our mind.” Scripture also says, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is” (Proverbs 23:7).

So family and friends, having a relationship by faith with our gracious God should bring His love nature into our heart or inner being. Our faith in Him generates hope in all we do because we work out our lifestyle to please Him. Studying to show ourselves approved becomes a critical part of our new pattern—whether we work for ourselves, someone else, for a just cause, or another company or organization.  Working with a divine perspective (even without pay) honors and glorifies the One who labored so magnificently to make us His children and the work of His love in the first place!

Phil 2:5; Phil 2:12; 1 Cor 3:21; John 8:50; John 17:22; Phil 4:19-20; Rev 20:12-13; 1 Tim 4:11; Acts 15:18; 1 Cor 10:31; Book of Ephesians; James 2:17, 20, 26