Created to Work

March 4

God tells us in the very first chapter of the very first book of the Bible that He is a worker. Genesis 1:26 states very clearly that God took counsel with Himself and created man. This book also states that He made everything that exists. It goes on to say that on the seventh day He rested, thereby establishing the pattern for our own labor. We, too, require a day of rest.

The Sabbath, or seventh day, was the day on which the Jews rested. It remained for Christians to change the day of rest to Sunday, to commemorate forever the day on which Jesus arose from the dead. Whether we lay aside life’s burdens on the first or on the seventh day of the week, the pattern remains—six days of work are to be followed by a day of rest.

God Himself continues to work, thereby validating throughout the days and seasons and years and generations of time the concept of working to achieve worthwhile goals. The work of the Holy One has transitioned from fashioning the heavens and the earth and all life upon the earth to labor of a spiritual nature. That labor occurs within each individual who lays his life at the feet of Jesus.

In Ephesians 2:10, Paul tells us, “We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” It is the intent of the One who inhabits eternity to become fully alive in man! When He has been given the opportunity to dwell in a man’s heart, our Lord and Savior will work within him to accomplish through him the work of the Kingdom.