Working to Share
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What is the fruit of your labor? Who directly benefits from your work? Does your labor benefit the people in need who are in your sphere of influence?
Our work produces fruit that benefits us directly. Our work benefits our family. Our work benefits the church. And our work should benefit the people around us who are in need.
The Apostle Paul wrote the church in Ephesus, encouraging them in the way they should live out their faith, saying, “Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.” (Ephesians 4:28, ESV).
We work to supply our own need. We are to be honest in our labor and we are not to steal. We are to produce a fruitful outcome by the work of our own hands. Our work should supply our own need, and should spill over into the lives of those around us who are in need.
Paul echoed these words to the Elders of the Church in Ephesus in the Book of Acts, saying, “In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” (Acts 20:35, ESV).
May we work in such a way that we honor God with the fruits of our labor, and may we be blessed as we work to supply our own needs, and as we work to share with those who are in need around us.
In Christ alone, Robbie
Suggested Prayer: “Father, I praise and thank You for gracing us to be givers as we do honest work with our own hands so we may share with anyone in need. Show our neighbors how in Christ, it is more blessed to give than to receive.” (Ephesians 4:28, BlessEveryHome.com).
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