God’s work and our work

On this Labor Day Sunday, Pastor Phil Kniss spoke about the holy nature of work. Whether our work is paid or unpaid, church related or purely secular, we cannot divide it into being either God's work or our work. If we are doing honorable labor, work that is aligned with God's mission in the world, then all work is God's work. We were encouraged to begin to view our work as a part of God's mission. The writer of Ecclesiastes says in chapter 5 that work is a good thing, a gift of God when we can find joy in our work. If our work is a co-laboring with God, then we can celebrate.