The End: Wasting Time Until The End?

Send us Fan MailAs the year’s end comes up you might find yourself beginning to think over your year. How has the year gone? How did I do when it comes to our plans, retirement, goals we set, things we did and if we are doing paid work - how is my work going?Paul speaks into this area of our life in Christ. He speaks of work today.There seems to have been a bit of a ‘work’ problem in the Christian community in Thessalonica. It does not seem to be an unemployment problem, but a heart problem when it comes to work that was available. For various reasons, a significant number of people in the church were refusing to engage in honest work. As a result, there was trouble in the church. They were doing ‘work’ but very unruly and unhelpful work – ‘the work of busybodies”.Paul raises up God’s gift of work in an attempt to help people see its high value and its good so that they neither under-work or over-work, but simply enjoy work because it is God’s design and gift for us who benefit from all the work God has done and is still doing for his world, of which we are part.Praying you find purpose and joy in what you are doing at the moment as you get a ‘bigger picture’ of your plans, your goals, your hopes and your work.Pastor Adrian