I'll be traveling and taking some vacation time through November
15th, so Purposed worKING will be revisiting some earlier posts until
then...
“Your love for one another will prove to
the world that you are my disciples”
Purposed worKING spends a lot of time on trying to help each of us
become better and better in living out our work lives in a way that God
would want us to so that we can bring glory to Him in all that we do.
There are so many lessons from the Bible that it feels like the fountain
that can’t run dry. Each day that we face the small and big challenges
of our work day and we are given the opportunity to either live, work
and walk in the steps of our Lord and the examples and instructions
given to us or to ignore and move in our own patterns and those of the
world. As believers we know what we are to do, but when surrounded by
so many others and the influences upon us, we can fall onto a path that
we didn’t want to walk on but just end up there. It’s hard to be in the
world. It’s hard to work. And, it’s even harder to work the way we
want day in and day out. As disciples of Christ we have big charges put
in front us. When Jesus says; “Your love for one another will prove to
the world that you are my disciples”, He is not mincing words and He is
making it clear as to what we are supposed to do. And as we all know,
loving one another, all the time and consistently is as about as hard as
it gets. But, this is what we are to do. At work we can show our love
by being ones who are caring, listening, respectful, encouraging,
appreciative and giving of ourselves. Maybe no one will ever describe it
at the office as “love” but we will send the same important and
powerful message. Today, look around you and think of someone who needs
your attention and caring. There is always someone, so find at least
one and go a little further with them today so that the descriptive
words above would be tagged on you today if the other person was asked
to describe you. Spread it around today and also see if it doesn’t
catch on too.
Reference: John 13:35 (New Living Testament)
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