For we are God’s fellow-workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. I Corinthians 3:9 NASB Fellow-workers – For devotional impact, one can hardly improve on Oswald Chambers’ commentary on this verse (see April 23 of My Utmost for His Highest). With typical aplomb, Chambers delivers a razor-sharp message. A man or woman engaged in the…
O Elohim, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have related to us, the work You did in their days, in the days of old. Psalm 44:1 ISR The work You did – I must confess. I can’t hold it in any longer. The current praise and worship music drives me crazy. It sounds…
But I am poor and needy, yet the Lord takes thought for me; you are my help and my savior; delay not, O God. Psalm 40:18 (Hebrew World) I am poor – Back up one verse. “Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You, let those who love Your salvation say…
“Is it permissible to heal on the Sabbath?” Matthew 12:10 (NASB) Permissible – The Sabbath is a day of rest, an honoring of God’s creative effort and a fulfillment of His ordinance for our own good. But every Jew knew that the commandment concerning the Sabbath was part of a hierarchy of commandments, some of…
and there was no man to till the ground Genesis 2:5 To Till – A few months ago we explored this Hebrew verb. We discovered that ‘avad is not really about farming. It means “to work,” but it also means “to serve” and, in that context, “to worship.” So, the same Hebrew verb that covers…
but rather let him labor, working the good with the hands, that he may have to give to the one having need. Ephesians 4:28 Have To Give – Why do you work? Try making the list of your work objectives. Let’s see – pay the bills, keep a roof over your head, provide for your…
And YHWH Elohim took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it. Genesis 2:15 Work – What kind of work do you do? I’m not asking about your occupation. I mean what is the relationship between what you do and who you are. What category of…
and you shall say to him, “YHWH the God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, “Send away My people, so that they may serve Me in the wilderness.” Exodus 7:16 Serve – What if this verse said, “so that they may work for Me”? Would that shift your understanding of God’s purpose? …
Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was not man to cultivate the ground. Genesis 2:5 To Cultivate – If you ask someone to tell you the story of…
Do not labor for the food which perishes but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give to you; for God the father sealed this one. John 6:27 Do Not Labor – The daily devotional of Oswald Chambers for July 27 is profound. One of the sentences reads,…
