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?” An honest answer to such a question deserves some serious thought.  Today’s message is designed to identify and discard the more probable human choices and make way for the only truth that satisfies such a challenging question.

There is nothing wrong with being self-employed or working for someone else, a just cause, a volunteering effort or another company/organization. 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.  It was Jesus who said, “This is the work of God, that you believe on Him whom He hath sent” (John 6:29).  This was His response to the following question put forth by the people: “What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?” So the question we asked at the opening of this message now 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, then what we think or feel must 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.

And while the idea is simple enough, it certainly doesn’t mean that walking it out will be easy. We can believe in our heart, yet not agree in our confused thought life. The personal integrity that comes with our reborn nature must blend harmoniously with the way God would have us think. Apostles Paul and Peter, John the Baptist, and most significantly, Jesus, were all known for their call 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 and Creator should bring His spiritual 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 as a volunteer without pay) or in my case as a  Fairhaven Realtor 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