Work

So I just recently started a job after being out of work for a solid two and a half months. It’s been great working and having money again. There are definetly different feelings brought forth when you no longer have to look in between the couch cushions for change to go see a movie or get a cheeseburger at McDonalds with some friends. Also it feels really great that I’m making a difference and doing something and impacting someone somewhere. It seems to me like I’m in my natural groove when Im’ working.

You know I thing that as people we are purposly programmed to work. I think that people, regardless of griping and grumbling, are happiest when they are busy. At least I am. Some people I know get depressed when they have nothing to do. Why is that?

It seems that there is satisfacetion from putting forth effort and reaping benefits while serving others that cannont be obtained any other way. Also I think in all of us is the desire to prove to ourselves and those around us our worth. By working we show that we are meaningful and that our life and the things we do have purpose. (That’s why after playing videogames for hours on end lots of kids come away with a feeling of depression and an unexplainable sense that they just wasted their time. That’s also why after a long day of cleaning or organizing there in deep sense of satisfaction and pleasure. Yes work is in fact pleasurable.)

Now some become obsessed with certain aspects of their jobs and work all of the time, not a good practice. To the reverse, some are quite lazy and don’t want to work or do much of anything. These people I think what I’m going to call a work-related deficiency. Just the right amout or work is good; too much or too little will be detremental to a person. Many wives wish their husbands would stop spending so much time at work and have more for them. Another many wives with their husbands would stop watching television on the coutch and get a real job. 

Work, like anything else, is beneficial, and pleasureable, and satisfying when it is done in the right amount. We were made for work just as we were made to serve. So go out and enjoy

God’s Love Never Fails Me

Even after I do something incredibly stupid God still loves me.  A wise friend once said to me, “God knows you completly and loves you perfectly.” You see all of our faults, fears, and failures are not hidden from God but are in plain view. Nothing we screw up is missed by his eye, yet God is full of compassion for us. Even though he can see all of the gross ugly crooked things in our lives he so despratly wants to show us how much he loves us and how much he cares about us, and you know what? Nothing we ever do will ever change how deeply and intimately God love us, Nothing.

“…And I pray that you… may have the power… to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge- that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

                                                                                             Ephesians 3:17-19

Isn’t that awesome? Do you really understand what was just said, That we have a God who is not distant and impersonal as a statue made stone but is a God who has this incredible deep love for us. It is right that we should call God father because in so many ways he is like an earthly father who looks at his children with tender eyes. God just wants to be involved in our lives, to be in a real relationship with us.