Scripture Colossians
3:17
Colossians 3:1 And
whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord
Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Genesis 2:1-8, 15
1
Thus the heavens and the earth were
completed in all their vast array. 2 By the seventh day God had finished the
work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3
And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from
all the work of creating that he had done.
There is a
balance in life called doing and not doing or waking and sleeping or working
and resting. God not only worked for six days creating the world and everything
in it, he also took a rest from that work. Why? 1) So he could sit back and
enjoy the work he had done. 2) so he could set an example for his creation. 3)
so he could see the work and determine if it needed any corrections. (painting
playground equipment).
God wasted no
time teaching us how to live. Right after showing us how to rest, His word in
Genesis 2 records this:
4 This is the account of the heavens and the
earth when they were created.
When the Lord God
made the earth and the heavens — 5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared
on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had
not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, 6
but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground
— 7 the Lord God formed the
man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life, and the man became a living being.
8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in
the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 15 The
Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take
care of it.
We were designed to work and to rest
and to work again, but our work should be our worship!
Consider
Cain-Soil & Able-Flocks - Abe worshipped God with His work, Cain did not.
JEHOSHAPHAT’S PRAISE
2 Chron 20:1-9
After this, the Moabites and Ammonites with some of the Meunites came
to make war on Jehoshaphat.
Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, "A vast army is coming against
you from Edom, from the other side of the Sea. It is already in Hazazon
Tamar" (that is, En Gedi).
Alarmed, Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the Lord, and he proclaimed
a fast for all Judah. The people of Judah came together to seek help from the
Lord; indeed, they came from every town in Judah to seek him.
Then Jehoshaphat stood up in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem at the
temple of the Lord in the front of the new courtyard and said: "O Lord,
God of our fathers, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the
kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can
withstand you. O our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land
before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham
your friend? They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your
Name, saying, 'If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment, or
plague or famine, we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears
your Name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and
save us.' 2 Chron 20:13-15 All
the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, stood there
before the Lord. Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jahaziel as he stood in
the assembly. He said: "Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah
and Jerusalem! This is what the Lord says to you: 'Do not be afraid or
discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's.
His work became his worship
My experience with TAMS-WHITMARK
My work
became my worship
The Work of Jesus was always his
worship!
Go through the sheet.
Phil 2:14-16
Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become
blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved
generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the
word of life — in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not
run or labor for nothing.
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