WHO—We Work to Please—Matters Most!
What task we grow up to do is important because the task brings us—
- Immense Satisfaction.
- Much Joy.
- Work for our days.
- Thoughts for our minds. &
- Busyness for our hands.
From the beginning of time, God designed us to work. From the creation of everything, God gave mankind—work—thus, it is important for mankind to know What work we are to do & to continually remember Why we work, but it is most important WHO we work to please!
Often I write these words. Do not believe me; believe God’s Word.
“Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. . . . “
“Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”
Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, . . .”
(Genesis 2: 15; 18-20a)
Our work is important to the Lord because he will assess our work; yes, that is correct. God will look at the work of our hands we have done during our lifetimes, and God will place a value upon our work. We have one earthly life to live, and while we are inside this decaying body, we are to place our hands to a task, one given to us by faith and not by our humanly sight. Once we see the task that God would have us to do, then we are to faithfully do the task with a worthy ambition and a great courage. One day, we will remain no more within this earth, and when that day comes, we who know Jesus as our Savior will be forevermore within the presence of the Lord. It is there, at home with God where we will stand before Him to receive our compensation for the work (for the task) we have faithfully done while we were alive within this earthly body. Heavenly Value! That is most important.
Standing before God, we will find ourselves—Individually. What the redeemed collectively will share is that we ALL will stand before the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY where we will be judged based upon this one fact—Have we worked—seeking only to please God?!!!
What we select to do within our earthly life—matters.
Where we chose to work within our earthly body—matters.
Yet, WHO We Work to Please—Matters Most!
“Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—
for we walk by faith, not by sight—
we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.”
(2 Corinthians 5: 6-10)
We are currently at home—walking within this skin God has stretched around our body, and as we walk, we are to work with courage (even though we must live here on earth rather than in glory with God). That’s correct. We are to walk by faith, doing the task Almighty God gives us to do, and we are to accomplish this task—courageously.
The Bible tells us the God of light will reveal the hidden things “and disclose the motives of men’s hearts;” Then we will see with clarity WHO we have been working for our entire life.
“Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men’s hearts; and then each man’s praise will come to him from God.”
(1 Corinthians 4: 5)
God created all things.
God created mankind.
God created all beasts, fowls, and fish.
God created the word “work” when He gave the first man—Adam—the first task to do—“brought them to the man to see what he would call them; . . .”
We are God’s creation.
God has created specific tasks for each of us—His children—to do.
We are to seek God’s will so that we can do that which He has prepared for us to do.
We are to be satisfying to our God.
We are to accomplish the task that God has specifically designed for us to do.
God is the “assigner” of tasks, and we are the “pleaser,” the “follower,” & the “child” God has specifically gifted for a particular task while we live within this earthly shell of a body.
God has empowered us to “do” all that He has designed for us to do.
We are not to be frightened but courageous.
We are not to be disobedient but obedient.
We are not to be wayward but faithfully focused.
We are not to be self-serving but pleasing to our Creator, to our God.
Whether or not we accept the task the Lord has prepared for us to do is totally up to us.
I do desire to one day stand before the LORD and for God to say, “Well done.”
How we accept our assignments & How we approach the work God has given us to do reveals to the world that—
What we select to do within our earthly life—matters; &
Where we chose to work within our earthly body—also matters; but
WHO—We Work to Please—Matters Most!
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.”
(Ephesians 2:10)