work matters. 8,760 hours in a year sleep = 2,555 this leaves 6,205 waking hours average worker in...
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Work Matters
8,760 hours in a yearSleep = 2,555
This leaves 6,205 waking hours
Average worker in US spends 2,020 of these hours working
Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.
Proverbs 19:15
The modern work doctrine:
Job = how you make money.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
“Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your
own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect
of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.”
Frederick Buechner
“The place where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep
need”
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
“Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your
own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect
of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.”
John 5:17
Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very
day, and I too am working.”
Genesis 2:7
“Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground”
Mark 6:3
“Isn’t this the carpenter?”
1 Corinthians 3:9
“we are God’s co-workers”
Genesis 2:15 …
Adam and Eve were to “work and keep” the Garden of Eden
Genesis 3:16: “I will make them very severe”
Genesis 3:17: “painful toil”
Galatians 3:13
“Christ redeemed us from the curse …”
Isaiah 2 …
“they shall beat their swords into plowshares”
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
“Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands,
just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of
outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.”
Matthew 25 …
“the sheep and the goats”
Hebrews 13:2
“Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown
hospitality to angels without knowing it.”
Voco = “to call, calling”
Colossians 3:23-24
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you
know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a
reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
Matthew 11:29-30
“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and
humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is
easy and my burden is light.”
Ecclesiastes 5:12
“Sweet is the sleep of a laborer”
