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PROGRAM D-7725
Thank God it’s Fri. . . Monday! My guess is you have already thanked God that it’s Friday, but what I’ve been trying to do this week is to help you see how you can truly learn to say, “Thank God it’s Monday.” Thank God for work, for your job assignment, and for what God is going to do with you and through you in your job.
Look again at the first work assignment as given to Adam; God never left him alone. God was always there with him. Well, when we’ve received Christ as Savior, we are never alone; he is with us in all our work.
In fact, he has invited us to come to him and take his yoke upon us. A yoke is a wooden block that holds two animals together while they work. Jesus wants to share his yoke with you, to have you work right beside him, and the good news is, his yoke is easy. So, when we go to our jobs on a daily basis yoked up with Jesus, working with him beside us, our jobs become much easier. That’s one way Jesus redeems our work from the curse.
Now, think of all that contention in your workplace; that dog-eat-dog attitude that permeates your job; the unfairness and discrimination and selfishness that is rampant. It all started when work was cursed with thorns and thistles and pain. But because Jesus became a curse for us on the cross, we don’t have to live under that curse anymore, and that means we can and should have a transformed attitude toward work.
This means that you and I can demonstrate the transforming power of Jesus Christ by our attitudes toward work, because since we’ve been set free from the curse of the law through faith in Jesus Christ, we may have to work in a corrupted environment, but we don’t have to be corrupted by it. We can stand out in that crowd as a bright light of hope by demonstrating a transformed attitude toward our work.
You see, the only way that workplace will be changed is when the individual hearts of people are changed. And God may have you there for that very reason—to help some of those people see their need for God through the way you work. Pretty exciting, don’t you think?
But it has to begin with a changed attitude on your part toward work—an attitude of thankfulness, an attitude of anticipation, an attitude of doing what God has called you to do. Then you can honestly say: Thank God it’s Monday!
