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Work to Work that Which Lasts.

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English: Coca-Cola-Truck - Freightliner Deutsc...

English: Coca-Cola-Truck – Freightliner Deutsch: Coca-Cola-Truck – Freightliner (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

My job, the thing I do to earn a wage, is to deliver trailers to their proper location and do so in a timely fashion.  A large part of my job is to do my job so that those who employ me gain the highest possible profit for my effort.  This is why they have started the business.  This is why they have employed me.  There are things I can do to accomplish what my employer demands of me.  And I am compelled to struggle against my foolishness to accomplish these things.  If the company finds someone who refuses to help maximize profit, they will fire them.

The same is true of my body, heart, and soul.    God made me.  He placed me in this place of work/profit.  It is my duty to deliver my soul to Him having accepted His commands.  To accept His words of instruction on a moment by moment basis.  To maximize His definition of  profit from His labor within me.  This is my duty in response to the Spirit of God within me.  If I refuse to do His Will I stand in danger of condemnation.

This scripture resounds as a warning:

“7For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God; 8but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.” (Hebrews 6: 7)

To work the work of God is a VERY difficult task.  It’s not hard because His demands are too high.  The work is hard because I contain such a vast array of foolishness and sinful tendencies.  The war within me against sin and foolishness is a 24/7 job.  And a scripture comes to mind as I pour out my strength toward what is Good:

“And, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?” (1 Peter 4:18).  If those who work by the power of God to accomplish the Glory of God in this world struggle so very intensely, what will happen to those who war to keep a distance between themselves and the Beauty that is God?

Just Imagine.

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I’ve been sitting here waiting to be able to drive my truck again.  We are compelled by law to take a 10 hour break at the end of 14 hours of duty ……… wow!  Cool huh?  Ok.  That was a useless heap of garbage to most anyone.  But anyway.  I was sitting here thinking about how useless
we are without God the Father creating the “new man” within us through the work of the Holy Spirit and Jesus’ sacrifice and Lordship.  (I realize that was a bit lengthy.  But credit is due to the One who Is.)

How would you like to appear before the consuming fire that is God the Father and say, “Well.  Here I am.  I guess I didn’t pay any attention  to Your things.  I’m just a derrilect of righteousness and pure holiness.  I’ve trashed Your Holy name time and again.  I’ve killed my fellow men with the words I’ve spoken.  I’ve neglected to do what is right and just.  I laughed at Your Holy Son and His people.  And I just seem to have appeared here before Your Blazing Throne of Purity and Holy Love.  I’d like to say I’m sorry.  But I realize that it was Your will for me that I would look for You in that life I lived.”

Or maybe you’ll be stupid enough to say something like this:  “Wow man!  Cool!  I didn’t think You were real dude”.

What might be His response?   Do the marketing thingy: “Just Imagine”.

By His Grace.