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Honest Work
By peace | November 12, 2007
Many proverbs encourage honest work and discourage laziness. For example, ‘Lazy hands bring poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth‘. Although poverty may not be shameful, laziness is. Although wealth may not be desirable, diligence is.
Laziness is a form of selfishness. It is also destructive, as observed in the proverb, ‘A lazy person is brother to a destructive person‘; meaning ‘failure to do what should be done is as bad as destroying what has been done’.
We must work if we are to live. But work should be more than merely a way of earning money. From the the beginning, God intended people to work, and to find dignity and enjoyment in it. Many tasks in the home, the community and the church may be unpaid, but they are still work, and should be done with purpose and to the best of one’s ability.
Christians have added reason for doing all things well, because they work to please their unseen master, Jesus Christ. The quality of their work should be worthy of him. In Proverbs, there is also an acknowledgment that worthwhile work has value in itself. ‘The person who does a good job is worthy to stand before kings’.
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