Thursday, August 18, 2011

Devotion--Work, part VI

Revelation 14:13
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who from now on die in the Lord.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them.”

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  Someday, we shall not work.  As Adam and Eve were being evicted from the Garden of Eden, they were told about how their lives would be transformed as a result of their sin.  They were told that their work, their labor, would be hard, and life would be different.  And so it has been ever since that fateful day.

  But someday, when God restores all of creation, we will rest from our labors, and we will take up the holy rest we find in God.  Someday, all the world will be restored and redeemed, and we shall dwell forever with the Lord.

  Until then, we will work.  It will be joyous sometimes, and at other times a difficult slog.  But we will work, and it is my earnest prayer that all of our work will be directed to God as worship.  May we offer all that we are to the Lord in thanksgiving and praise, praising God through our work and letting all of life be worship.

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Psalm 127

1Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.

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