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Everyday Saints Devotional 14

by David Joynt on January 15, 2022


COLOSSIANS 3:23-24 | 23 Whatever your task, put yourselves into it, as done for the Lord and not for your masters, 24 since you know that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you serve the Lord Christ.

The Sabbath command is a labor law as well as a renewal decree. It eliminates work for one day a week, but it elevates work on the
other days. Sabbath practice should never be used to denigrate
labor or productivity. Human flourishing involves work and not in a secondary way. Labor is primary to our identity, we work because we resemble a creative and productive God, the source of energy and ideas. Our faith is to be expressed in our work which we must see as an arena of service and witness. When we express our God-given gifts productively, we enhance the world, build society, honor our Creator, and express our faith. God is our ultimate boss.

Is God your boss?

Do your faith values ever create work conflicts?

 

Tags: faith, god, work, boss, conflicts

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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