Scripture
John 6:27-29
Observation
Do not waste your efforts by spending them on too small a goal – food that perishes. Work for food that endures to eternal life. Jesus is the only one who gives this food. He gives this food to those who believe. The work God requires of us is to believe in Jesus.
Application
There is [...]
Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music, or pictures, or architecture, or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that is why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. – Mother Theresa
Wherever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand, in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science, he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of his God, he is employed in the service of his [...]
In nothing has the church so lost her hold on reality as in her failure to understand and respect the secular vocation. She has allowed work and religion to become separate departments, and is astonished to find that, as a result, the secular work of the world is turned to purely selfish and destructive ends, [...]
