Daily Devotional: Thursday, April 22
Speaker: Paul Diaz Theme: Make Your Work Worth It Weekend Music links on iTunes: Break My Heart by Mike Flathers; Yesterday, Today and Forever by Vicky Beeching; Your Name by Paul Baloche; Rescue by Desperation Band.
Read: Matthew 4: 18-22; Acts 2:42-47 Think: This week Paul continued the series “Your bucket list” and focused on work, ‘Does my work matter?’As we look at work this week it is important to understand why you are really working. In doing our best and working as God would have us work we can show honesty and integrity that comes from knowing God and living according to His will. This affects the people around us that we have work relationships with, people we may not meet if not for work. These work colleagues need to see God’s people in real life settings, to see how our lives are different and to have relationships with us. In both our passages today we see God’s focus on reaching out to His people, both by teaching the fishermen to follow Him and use their skills and by the difference in lives of the early church who met and shared with each other. Paul said this weekend “more important than what you do is who you are.” That is, the relationship we share with people should be our primary ‘work’, a place where we take care and value the time given to us with others.I was blessed for a number of years to work with terminally ill patients and it taught me so much including making the most of the time you have with people regardless of who you are. In my job I knew time was short with the people I came into contact with. Most of us are not that fortunate. We do not know the ‘dead’line to the relationships we have so it is more important to make the most of all our time. If you knew how much time you had left in a relationship how would it change what you did and how much of yourself you gave to the other person, to someone at work, a family member, a neighbor.Do: Think about the people in your work and social life who do not know God. Aim to show them God in a real way through how you are with them and not by ‘beating them over the head’ with a Bible…. Unless God specifically tells you too! Make the most of each moment in the relationships you have and take the time to care for those you come into contact with. Pray:Thank you Lord for the relationships You put into our lives, for the people we meet every day who can see You at work through us. Help us to take any opportunity to strengthen those relationships and pour ourselves into them whole heartedly caring for those You love. Please help us to see Your purpose in our work each day and Your love for those we meet. Amen
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