Strength for Today

"The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed" (Gen. 2:8). Someone has said, "Work is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, fulfill nothing, without working. If you are poor ~ work. If you are rich ~ continue working. If you are burdened with unseemingly unfair responsibilities ~ work. If you are happy, keep right on working. Idleness gives room for doubt and fears. If disappointments come ~ work. If your health is threatened ~ work. When faith falters ~ work. When dreams are shattered and hope seems dead ~ work. Work as if your life were in peril. It really is. No matter what ails you ~ work. Work faithfully ~ work with faith. Work is the greatest remedy available for mental and physical afflictions" (Author unknown). Dorothy Sayers adds, "Work is not primarily a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God." God placed man east of Eden to work the good earth. Be sure that you spend your time on this good earth engaged in the God-ordained ministry of work. You will be blessed and so will others. God will be glorified and others will be edified. Now, go to work! God will supply you "Strength for Today!"