Work, Purpose, Joy, and Pleasure
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What is your work? Where do you find purpose in your life? What brings you great joy and pleasure in life?
Our work is supposed to give us purpose, joy, and pleasure in our lives. Our work is supposed to be meaningful. Our work is supposed to be joyful and pleasurable.
Because of the fall of humanity and the brokenness of this world, our work is not always meaningful, purposeful, joyful, or pleasurable. However, it is God’s good design for our work to flourish and to be meaningful.
The wise preacher, most likely wise King Solomon, wrote, “I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.” (Ecclesiastes 3:12-13, ESV).
Joyfulness and doing good go hand-in-hand. We are to take pleasure in our toil. Enjoying our work, doing good in the world, and enjoying our daily lives and work—is a gift from God.
May we live joyfully and be filled with pleasure as we live purposeful lives, doing meaningful work—doing good in the world—and taking pleasure in all our toil.
In Christ alone, Robbie
A Prayer of Self-Dedication: “Almighty and eternal God, so draw our hearts to you, so guide our minds, so fill our imaginations, so control our wills, that we may be wholly yours, utterly dedicated unto you; and then use us, we pray, as you will, and always to your glory and the welfare of your people; through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.” (#61. Book of Common Prayer, 1979, p. 831).
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