Who’s Watching?

“but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works; that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me,” John 10:38

Works – Yesterday we discovered that the Hebrew word abad has the sense of both work and worship.  In the divinely ordered world, what we do as the servants of the Most High is in fact paying honor to Him.  Jesus is the paradigm example of work-worship.  He did whatever the Father asked of him.  There is a dual purpose for such active worship.  Someone is watching.

In this passage, Jesus addresses those skeptics who doubt his words.  What a mistake!  We know that the words of God are filled with power and majesty.  Who could refuse them?  Nevertheless, many do.  They do not hear with the ears of the Spirit.  Jesus is quite practical about this.  He simply says, “If you doubt what I say, then observe my productive efforts and let them guide you to the truth.”

The Greek is tois ergois.   You can see the English word energy buried here.  We could translate it as work, performance, labor, business or what is done.  Just another reminder that God does not live in a box.  He’s busy 24/7 engineering the circumstances of your life so that you can glorify Him in every activity.  But there is another reason that work-worship must be your activity motto.  Work that glorifies God is a powerful witness to a deeper truth.  When your words don’t make a dent, your actions will.

Cut the grass with joy.  Weed rejoicing.  Commute in communion.  Delegate divinely.  Practice holiness.  Love your neighbor – and your enemy.  Build, buy, sell, serve and plan with God at your side.  When the works can only be explained with God in the equation, then your words will be heard.  Your work is an invitation for another’s examination.  Let him see God behind the efforts.