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Thank God it’s Fri … Monday! My guess is some of you have already thanked God 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. If you have received Christ as Savior, you are never alone; he is with you in all your 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. When you go to your job each day yoked up with Jesus, working with him beside you, your job 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. 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 you can demonstrate the transforming power of Jesus Christ by your attitude toward work, because you’ve been set free from the curse of the law through faith in Jesus Christ. You may have to work in a corrupted environment, but you don’t have to be corrupted by it. You can stand out in that crowd as a bright light of hope by demonstrating a transformed attitude toward your 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 must begin with your attitude 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!
