Work as Worship: Honoring God in Our Professions
We often partition our lives into neat, isolated boxes. There is the "spiritual box" with the Sunday morning liturgies, the early morning devotionals, the small group fellowship. And then there is the "secular box" with the spreadsheet deadlines, the retail shifts, the corporate meetings, and the grueling daily commute. We naturally view the former as holy and the latter as a necessary distraction to pay the bills. But what if this division is entirely foreign to the heart of God? When we look through the pages of Scripture, we discover a radical, paradigm-shifting truth: God does not ignore our 9-to-5; He claims it. Work was not a consequence of the Fall; it was an assignment given in paradise. Your office, your workshop, your clinic, or your kitchen table is not an obstacle to your spiritual life, rather it is the very stage upon which your worship is meant to be expressed. By exploring a few biblical texts let us discover how our daily labor can be transformed in...
