The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.

Men past 40 get up nights And look out At city lights, Wondering where they Made the wrong Turn, and why life Is so long.

•Creative Action of God

•Creative Action of God

Proverbs 8:22

“The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.

•Creative Action of God

•Creative Action given to Man

• Genesis 2:5 (ESV) 5When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground,

• Genesis 2:15 (ESV) 15The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Genesis 3:23 (ESV) 23therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

•Creative Action of God

•Creative Action given to Man

•Sluggard

Proverbs 26 13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the

road! There is a lion in the streets!”

14 As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.

15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;

it wears him out to bring it back to

his mouth.

•Sluggard is Lazy

• Sluggard Refuses to work

•Sluggard is Lazy

• Sluggard Refuses to work

Proverbs 21:25

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

•Reframe your work

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•Reframe your work

Proverbs 16:3

Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.

•Reframe your work

Colossians 3:23-24 23Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men,24knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.

The prince should think: Christ has served me and made everything to follow him; therefore, I should also serve my neighbor, protect him and everything that belongs to him...

The same is true for shoemaker, tailor, scribe, or reader. If he is a Christian tailor, he will say: I make these clothes because God has bidden me do so, so that I can earn a living, so that I can help and serve my neighbor. When a Christian does not serve the other, God is not present; that is not Christian living.

•Reframe your work

•Retrain our mind to work

Proverbs 6.6-9 6 Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. 7 Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, 8 she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. 9 How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?

•Realign with God’s design

•Retrain our mind to work

The highest calling is not being a pastor, but becoming all God called you be, namely a person who Glorifies God in all you do!

• How can your work be better aligned with God’s work?

• Do you commit yourself to your craft as God has given it to you?

• Are you pursuing work to help human flourishing or for your sole benefit?