Bonnie Wurzbacher, the Vice President for Coca-Cola, said something radical if not revolutionary.
Speaking of her career and vocational journey, she remarked, "Where once I thought a job should be meaningful, now I realize the worker brings meaning to the job."
That is at least radical for most of us. So often we look for a job that is meaningful, as if meaningful can be found in a nicer office, happier co-workers, better salary, a more highly-reputed position or some other externally-driven factor.
The truth is, your job can be meaningful regardless of what profession, your co-workers, or your pay. The meaningfulness will be found as a result of something within your heart.
Take just a moment and consider the Lord's view of the concept of work.
Appearing 145 times in the Old Testament, the word "abodah" literally means work, as in rustic or manual labor, such as the work done on a farm.
But it also means service and has definite spiritual and sacred meanings (i.e., the service or work of repairing the temple, the work of the Levitical priests in the Tent of Meeting, etc.) and is used in connection with worship and the sacrifices people would bring with them to worship the Lord. It even carries the idea of adoration.
Work. Worship. Service. Sacrifice. Adoration.
Like a multi-strand rope, God's Word weaves them all together interchangeably. So why have we tried to untangle them and isolate "work" to be just something mundane, routine, or non-spiritual?
As you work, you are offering the Lord your...
