Faith @ WorkNäide

At your place of work, in the midst of all the noise competing for your heart’s attention, God calls to you, offering you his wisdom. God’s wisdom is unique. This world in which you live and work is God’s handiwork. As the Creator, God is the only one who knows exactly how everything is designed. Instead of providing you with an owner’s manual, the Creator desires to enter into a personal relationship with you and to share firsthand how everything functions. Relying on his wisdom and understanding will enable you to do your job with excellence.

God’s wisdom is true, just, and perfect. It will teach you prudence and discretion and provide you with counsel and sound judgment, and insight. God’s wisdom will enable you to make just decisions and to lead well. God understands the intricacies of the hearts of those you work and live alongside, so with his wisdom, you can love and relate to them in a way that aligns with God’s kingdom purposes.

The wisdom of God comes with a promise of a rich blessing. Should you choose to follow his wisdom, your life will produce fruit that is more precious than rubies and better than fine gold, and its yield surpasses choice silver. The day is coming when Christ will redeem the work you are doing today. If you are going about your work with God’s wisdom, no matter how menial or fascinating the work is, when it is refined by fire, in some inexplicable, mysterious way, it will be purified as gold and silver.

The work you are doing today has immense value when you continually rely on God’s wisdom. The One who created you, rejoices over you, and loves you says this to you today:

So now, children, listen to me;
Blessed are those who keep my ways.
Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise,
and do not neglect it.
Blessed is the one who listens to me,
watching at my doors day by day,
waiting beside my doorway.
For the one who finds me finds life
and receives favor from the Lord.
(Proverbs 8:33–35 NET)

Prayer

Almighty God, give me ears to hear your words of instruction so that I may always dwell in your house and bring glory to your name by the way I live. Amen.