Your weekly roundup of insights and resources to help you get more done for the glory of God.
In Today’s Issue:
- Work as Worship
- Genesis 2:15 on the Goodness of Work
- How to Mark a Book
- Predictions on AI and Work
- Achievable Bible-Reading Goals
Dear steward,
It’s a tragedy that many Christians see their “secular” jobs as merely means to an end, a necessary evil to pay the bills.
Somewhere along the line we’ve gotten it into our heads that work and worship are unrelated.
But worship isn’t just what you do on Sunday when your hands are raised, but also when they’re clacking away at the keyboard on Monday, turning a wrench under a car hood on Wednesday, or greeting a customer as they walk into your store on a Friday.
Work and worship are more aligned than we think.
At least, they ought to be.
Glorifying God through your job begins not with a career change, but mindset change.
You have to see your job as the place God has called you to in this present season. Much of the good works He has prepared in advance for you to zealously walk in (Eph 2:10; Titus 2:14) will happen between 9–5, Monday–Friday.
Don’t squander this opportunity for to work as unto the Lord (Col 3:23)!
Worship in our work is a matter of the heart. It can be found when we labor with a God-glorifying attitude, serve our neighbors in love, and receive our wages with thanksgiving to God.
Work is worship.
For more on this, read Closing the Gap Between Work and Worship (11 mins).
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Weekly Word
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.”
– Genesis 2:15
Work can be hard, frustrating, and toilsome in a fallen world. But never lose sight of the fact that work is part of God’s original design for mankind, before sin ever entered the picture. Work is good. So let’s do our work today without complaining, as an act of worship to our Maker.
Worth Your Time
- How to Mark a Book (8 mins) First published in 1941, this is Mortimer J. Adler’s timeless advice for how to get the most out of your reading. “I contend, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of mutilation but of love.”
- Cal Newport’s Predictions on AI and Work (11 mins) This is a thoughtful, informed, and balanced take on the current state of AI and how it will affect our work.
- Don’t Overcomplicate Your Bible Reading (4 mins) Jacob Crouch offers some good advice on how to set realistic Bible reading goals.
Words of Wisdom
“I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.”
– Jim Elliot
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