More Bricks, Less Straw, Equals Less Worship

All overworked people know the refrain: More bricks, less straw.

And what’s interesting to note in Pharaoh’s reaction is that he assumes that a request for worship is symptomatic of laziness.

What I find interesting in all this is how the worship of God is perceived to interrupt the work and quotas demanded by Pharaoh. The tension, at least here in the beginning of Exodus, isn’t the clash between slavery and liberation but the clash between worship and work.

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Tearing Down The Sacred Vs. Secular Divide In Your Vocation

Luther actually suggested, “God doesn’t need your good works, but your neighbor does.” So when Paul says in Ephesians that “it is by grace you have been saved” it is deeply connected to the work you do in your everyday life. When Paul continues, he goes on to say “for your are God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus do good works.” God actually created you to do good.

You simply love your neighbor because they need it, not because they are a means to an end. The good work of God actually frees you to fulfill your calling as you love your neighbor in ordinary ways in your own workplaces, families, and neighborhoods.

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How To Turn Your Work Into Worship

“Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.” (1 Thessalonians 4:11-12) 

As a follower of Christ our “daily life” mirrors our inward faith and discipleship, or lack thereof.  Our actions in the marketplace speak loudly of how we see our lives connecting with God’s Story of Grace.

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Why Work? by Dorothy Sayers

The profoundly talented writer, Dorothy Sayers, offers her insights on work and vocation. In a day when many view work as drudgery and a necessary evil, Mrs. Sayers sees it as a way of life in which the nature of man should find its proper exercise and delight and so fulfill itself to the glory of God. That it should, in fact, be thought of as a creative activity undertaken for the love of the work itself; and that man, made in God’s image, should make things, as God makes them, for the sake of doing well a thing that is well worth doing.

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