Well, that’s another hard shift over, a few nice days off now. Talking of work and hard shifts, it reminded me of the Fall.

“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree
of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you;
in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken;
for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:17-19 (ESV).

Now I totally understand, why, when the alarm clock goes of in the morning a feeling of depression sinks in….. with the thought of here we go again…. work, work ,work!!! Luckily it isn’t that bad, but the serious side to this is the effect of sin in every part of life.

God had warned man not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Gen 2:16-17). We know what happened next, they did exactly the opposite of what was expected, they ate the fruit of the tree. They would die, but God in His mercy postponed it. It is by God’s grace that we all still walk around and breath. The punishment was hard toil as the ground would not so easily offer up food to eat.

This, is why we don’t like work too much, although work is good for you , it’s just that it is not going to be easy.

As Christians, we should carry out our work in a way that glorifies God, in fact everything we do should glorify God. Its took me a long time to realize that Glorifying God includes my work… so at the moment to my own shame.. its a work in progress.

I was watching a program on UCB, I can not for the life of me remember what it was called, but a couple of guys were explaining how they pray for their work place/colleagues and bosses (yes, even their boss), they would pray while walking in corridors in the offices etc. I felt convicted at that point. So now I have written out a plan for ‘work prayer’ before work at/in and around work, that God’s sovereign presence will be felt and that His name be glorified in my own work place. So starting from my next shift, that is my plan.