“LABOR!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 751

September 2, 2025///

I am thinking about how each of us spent what is called Labor Day yesterday.

It is supposed to recognize hard work and jobs done well!

Some had to work as usual, some had picnics or celebrations with others.

Others worked on house or yard projects and others did nothing but take a complete day of rest.

We call our labor work, and our work takes many different forms from Moms and Dads to CEO’s.

We find our motivations as varied as the jobs we do. Each of us is gifted with special abilities that we can use to make life better for ourselves and others.

Our culture measures our performance with results. But what does God look at as we go about out daily task and jobs.

God looks at our heart, attitude, faithfulness, and integrity!

God looks at our motivation and He desires we do all we do as unto Him!

When we do everything in our lives as worship unto the Lord Jesus it changes the world around us!

1 CORINTHIANS 15:58 (KJV)THEREFORE, MY BELOVED BRETHREN, BE YE STEDFAST, UNMOVEABLE, ALWAYS ABOUNDING IN THE WORK OF THE LORD, FORASMUCH AS YE KNOW THAT YOUR LABOUR IS NOT IN VAIN IN THE LORD.

When this scripture refers to our labor in the Lord, we tend to think of ministry work, but I believe all our work, everything we do, is the work of the Lord when we do all we do unto Him.

If your heart is in right relation to the Lord Jesus and you realize every ability and opportunity you have affects others and shows them Jesus with skin on, it is all worship.

Obedience is worship and faithfulness is worship and if we release all we do to the guidance and leading of the Lord Jesus it is all worship.

Labor! Sometimes our labor may be hard and long, such as the delivery of a precious baby can be.

Maybe our labor is one of caring for the sick or making sure our children are clothed, fed, LOVED, and taking them to the places they need to be.

Your labor could be what you might consider the same old, same old!

I truly feel that what I am supposed to leave with you today is that all we do can be worship, because it is a matter of our heart.

Is our innermost being worshipping as we are thanking God for the privilege of serving Him in whatever place we are in and in whatever way we can!

God is doing a work in each of us to mold us into the image of the Lord Jesus. Jesus’ life was one of constant fulfillment of the Father’s will and that is what our lives should be.

Philippians 1:6 (KJV)Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

My prayer is that we will be moldable clay and do all we do as worship to the Creator God!

Isaiah 64:8 (KJV) But now, O Lord, thou art our father;

We are the clay, and thou our potter;

And we all are the work of thy hand.

I encourage you to try this truth for one day. As you do the things you need to do today, do it all as worship and praise to God from the heart!

Your day will be better, your heart lighter, and you will affect those around you with good!

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Father, I pray for each person who reads this. Let the truth of you will, your way, and your Love fill each of us. Impart to us the understanding the Christianity is a matter of the heart. And if our heart is filled with worship and praise to you, we are honoring you and fulfilling your will for us! Amen!

Love, MeMaw!