Work (4 of 7)
Series: Proverbs: Biblical Street Smarts
Bob Ingle
Proverbs 6:6-11
Open to Proverbs 6. How many of you LOVE your job? I mean, you can't wait to get to work? I have to be honest with you (since I'm a pastor and all), I thought about every job I've ever had from a kid through adult, and I didn't have one job I liked at all until I became a pastor. Not one. Isn't that terrible? Here's the thing...that's the norm not the exception. Let me give you two stats that might surprise you:
1. The average person will spend about 40% of the waking hours of their adult life at work.
2. According to the Princeton Management Association, 82% of Americans do not enjoy their work.
That percentage has been consistent over the last three decades. Think about that for a second. 40% of the time American adults are awake they are doing something they don't like or enjoy. Let me ask you Waypoint, does God care if you like your job or not? Does God care how you work as long as you get the job done? Does God care what you do for a living as long as you pay your bills? The answer to all of those is yes. He cares about your work. He cares what you do and how you do it.
Ecclesiastes 2:24: ''So I decided there is nothing better than to enjoy food and drink and to find satisfaction in work. Then I realized that these pleasures are from the hand of God.'' Did you realize you were made to work? You were created to work. Some people think 'work' is a dirty, four letter word that should be avoided at all cost. Some see it as a necessary evil that is the consequence of Adam and Eve's sin in the Garden. But that's not the case at all. Genesis 2: 15 says, ''Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and keep it.'' The very first thing God did with Adam after creating him was put him to work. Before he gave him a woman, God put Adam to work.
Listen, young guys who aren't married yet...you know what's really sexy to a woman? A J-O-B. I ...
Series: Proverbs: Biblical Street Smarts
Bob Ingle
Proverbs 6:6-11
Open to Proverbs 6. How many of you LOVE your job? I mean, you can't wait to get to work? I have to be honest with you (since I'm a pastor and all), I thought about every job I've ever had from a kid through adult, and I didn't have one job I liked at all until I became a pastor. Not one. Isn't that terrible? Here's the thing...that's the norm not the exception. Let me give you two stats that might surprise you:
1. The average person will spend about 40% of the waking hours of their adult life at work.
2. According to the Princeton Management Association, 82% of Americans do not enjoy their work.
That percentage has been consistent over the last three decades. Think about that for a second. 40% of the time American adults are awake they are doing something they don't like or enjoy. Let me ask you Waypoint, does God care if you like your job or not? Does God care how you work as long as you get the job done? Does God care what you do for a living as long as you pay your bills? The answer to all of those is yes. He cares about your work. He cares what you do and how you do it.
Ecclesiastes 2:24: ''So I decided there is nothing better than to enjoy food and drink and to find satisfaction in work. Then I realized that these pleasures are from the hand of God.'' Did you realize you were made to work? You were created to work. Some people think 'work' is a dirty, four letter word that should be avoided at all cost. Some see it as a necessary evil that is the consequence of Adam and Eve's sin in the Garden. But that's not the case at all. Genesis 2: 15 says, ''Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and keep it.'' The very first thing God did with Adam after creating him was put him to work. Before he gave him a woman, God put Adam to work.
Listen, young guys who aren't married yet...you know what's really sexy to a woman? A J-O-B. I ...
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