you do your work currently?  Understand that God is all-knowing.  He knows your every word, thought, and deed.  He is able to determine accurately how effectively you are doing your work.  In fact, God knows how passionate your intent to do your very best is.

Kingdom living embraces the practice that God is indeed your boss.  While you have some level of human accountability and management over you, it is ultimately God that you serve.  While you may sit across the table or desk receiving a performance review from a human boss, it is God that provides the final review of your work.

The quality of our work speaks volume to others of our character and our passion.  It is our knowledge, what we have learned; concerning how to best do our work that most influences this quality.  When we intend to learn we motivate ourselves to please God by displaying a passion to be the best worker we can be.  When we take the steps necessary to learn we motivate God towards saying of us, “Well done.”

There is power in knowledge.  It is said that we are in the information age.  We are inundated with information.  But information is not knowledge.  While information is the data, knowledge is the understanding of what that data means and what can or should be done because of that data.

He who knows what to do is apt to be a better worker than he who guesses at what to do.  Yes, there are some lucky guessers in our world, but they are the rare exceptions.  The one who actively seeks to learn more about their work and how to accomplish their work will be a better worker.

An electrician who was a Christian for most of his life heard a pastor once say that God is concerned with the work of His people.  Further the pastor said that it matters to God how well each of His people perform their work, therefore, they should strive to be the very best at whatever work they do.

The reaction of this electrician was to reject this pastor’s message.  His reasoning for rejecting this was because he believed that God was not concerned with the work of an electrician.  It was, in his own thinking, more than adequate for him to do an average quality of work, for after all, it was only ministry work that counted for the Kingdom.  Or so he thought!

If we are to view each day as a day we serve the Lord, not simply when we are in the church or participating in some church program, we need to see how this affects our work.  What we do for work is what we do to serve the Lord.

Throughout the Bible, God blesses those who follow Him.  He blesses those who live out His plans for them.  Many times these plans are inconsistent with how the individual saw their own abilities and capabilities, yet, God is always faithful to fulfill His promise to bless those who follow His plans.

If you were to approach your work as if God were your boss, would you change anything about how

God Has A Plan For Your Work
Learn All You Can – Key #2

by Pastor Dave Bassett

by Pastor Dave Bassett

April 2008 — Issue #2

Special points of interest:

· God Has A Plan For Your Work
  by Pastor Dave Bassett

· What Do You Want To Learn?
   by Judy Bassett

· What Should The Church Look Like
  by Pastor Dave Bassett