Is work your life? Or life your work? Slow down ...and check this out.
Let's see what Jesus says about work and how that relates to our LIFE.
John 6:27-35
Stop toiling {and} doing {and} producing for the food that perishes {and} decomposes [in the using], but strive {and} work {and} produce rather for the [lasting] food which endures [continually] unto life eternal; the Son of Man will give (furnish) you that, for God the Father has authorized {and} certified Him {and} put His seal of endorsement upon Him.
They then said, What are we to do, that we may [habitually] be working the works of God? [What are we to do to carry out what God requires?]
Jesus replied, This is the work (service) that God asks of you: that you believe in the One Whom He has sent [that you cleave to, trust, rely on, and have faith in His Messenger].
Therefore they said to Him, What sign (miracle, wonderwork) will You perform then, so that we may see it and believe {and} rely on {and} adhere to You? What [supernatural] work have You [to show what You can do]?
Our forefathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as the Scripture says, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.
Jesus then said to them, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Moses did not give you the Bread from heaven [what Moses gave you was not the Bread from heaven], but it is My Father Who gives you the true heavenly Bread.
For the Bread of God is He Who comes down out of heaven and gives LIFE to the world.
Then they said to Him, Lord, give us this bread always (all the time)!
Jesus replied, I am the Bread of Life. He who comes to Me will never be hungry, and he who believes in {and} cleaves to {and} trusts in {and} relies on Me will never thirst any more (at any time).
We get caught up in the things of this world -- getting a good home, a good vehicle, comforts in life and pleasures that identify us in today's age and makes us people of "status".
What or who are we working for? In most third world countries it's survival. For some it's for a "better" life. Life? What life?
Isn't there something which people look for and are still groaning within unable to find that "something" that completes them? Jesus is that life that EVERYONE is looking for. HE can fill that thirst that you are looking for. We look in all the wrong places -- at our work, for example . And it cannot satisfy us nor define us.
Let's allow Jesus in. To be filled with LIFE and have a purpose. And then work....without being hungry or thirsty.
