Have you ever wondered, “What’s the point?”

You go to work, come home, have dinner, and somehow manage to cram in a myriad of activities before crashing on your pillow only to be alerted all too soon that it’s time to do it all over again. Don’t you ever wonder, “Why?”

So why do you do what you do anyway? Is it for a paycheck or because you just love your job? Are you after money, success, and recognition, or do you go to work for the sheer pleasure it brings? Even if we find a measure of enjoyment in our daily activities most marketplace Christians are simply doing what is necessary to make a living.

But consider with me for a moment …

What if we were to do what we do for one purpose: Love! What if we were to endure temporary hardships in the workplace with the same goal Jesus had when He endured the cross: Joy!

… let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus … who for the joy set before him
endured the cross … – Hebrews 12:1-2 NIV

What if for the reward of eternal joy we would run the race set before us, press on for the prize, fix our eyes on Jesus, and fulfill every responsibility as an act of loving Him?

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has
called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. – Philippians 3:14 NIV

Just what if we were to adore God at work through our actions, not just our words? I tell you – if every believer went to work with this kind of focus every day there would be revival in the corporate world!

Well why not?

Jesus told us to love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is:  ‘Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this:  ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” – Mark 12:29-31 NKJV

Loving God with all our emotions, personality, thoughts, and abilities is the first and greatest commandment. We love God with our strength by working with excellence as unto Him.

So what do you do?

Think about all of your skills, gifts, talents, and resources. Are you using them as a means of loving God? Even if they seem to have no obvious relation to the Lord you can love Him simply by working as if He were the only One watching, evaluating, and taking pleasure in you. So today as you work, imagine God smiling at you and do every task as an expression of your loving devotion to Him.

Who knows, you may even experience His joy as you work.

– Chérie Blair