Speak JESUS wherever we labor
In North America, the end to the summer season 2025 officially arrives this weekend with the “holiday” Labor Day. If we pause to look again at that opening sentence, we will notice a few key words:
- “holiday”
- “the end”
- “season”
- “Labor”
- “Day”
Let’s consider the significance of these words and notice how they are vital to who we are in the Lord.
The apostle Paul was a man who knew how to do a day’s work. In fact, when the Lord met him that transforming day on the road to Damascus, Paul continued his workday task to support the missionary work the Lord called Paul to do. You see, Paul was a maker of tents, but on his way to Damascus that fateful day, Paul was not headed to Damascus to market his tents but to bring persecution to believers, to the followers of Jesus. Then Paul met JESUS, and EVERYTHING CHANGED!
“In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness;
(The Letter of Paul to the Romans 8: 26-27 NASB)
for we do not know how to pray as we should,
but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;
and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is,
because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.”
Throughout Scripture, from the beginning of creation, the main story has remained—God’s plan to save people. It’s True!
“The end” of life for every person alive and for every person who has ever lived or who will ever live—is nearer now today than it was yesterday. There are two eternities, two eternal destinations, and we must each decide while we are alive, WHAT WE WILL DO WITH JESUS!
Once a person chooses JESUS, then God’s Holy Spirit enters that person’s being forevermore. We who were once fearful of “the end” (of what comes after life, and of death) are made FEARLESS.
Jesus Himself tells us so.
“When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father,
(The Gospel According to John 15: 26-27 NASB)
that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father,
He will testify about Me,
and you will testify also,
because you have been with Me from the beginning.”
What we experience is an image of a turn-around story. One moment we are spiritually lost, unable to see Jesus, unable to speak about the truth of Jesus or Father God. THEN JESUS ENTERS US!
When we believe in Jesus and His work on the cross, then we become empowered by God’s Holy Spirit, and He teaches us how to pray, even when we don’t even know the right words to say. AMAZING, RIGHT?! From that moment, the Holy Spirit of God forms the Gospel on our lips, and our pulpit can then be found in any place we work.
We submit in His power & We speak Jesus.
Therefore, it does not really matter what “season” of life we currently live. We may be like university students searching for our life’s work, or we may be walking through the middle “season” of life, working where God has led us to toil, or we may be in the final “season” of life, walking through retirement years. Wherever we reside, despite the work the LORD gave our hands to do, we are to “Labor” for the sake of the Gospel while the time is still called “Day.”
The Bible tells us so.
“Whatever you do,
(The Letter of Paul to the Colossians 3: 23-24 NASB)
do your work heartily,
as for the Lord rather than for men,
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance.
It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.”
This “holiday” weekend, a time we set aside our work, may we pause to reflect how we once faced “the end” of our life separated from the salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ. This “season” may you (& may I} faithfully consider how you might “do your work heartily as for the Lord rather than for men.”
The late Reverend Billy Graham once said these words: “When we understand that God has given our work to us, we’ll want to do it faithfully and diligently.” & “When we know we’re in God’s will, we’ll find it’s no longer a burden but one of the ways God has given us to serve Him.”
Wherever & Whatever & However we “Labor”—May We Speak JESUS—while it’s still called “Day.”