Where Value Is Earned Day 187 – 6 July When No One Looks “not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.” (Ephesians 6:6, ESV) What Survives the Empty Room A question worth sitting with before the working week gathers pace: how much
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Where Value Is Earned Day 186 – 5 July From the Soul “And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.” (Colossians 3:23, KJV) Two Workers, One Task Set two people side by side at the identical job, and you may notice something no time sheet could ever measure.
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Where Value Is Earned Day 185 – 4 July Keeper, and Kept “The earth is the LORD’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.” (Psalm 24:1, NIV) When Caring Feels Like Owning The more devotedly a person tends something, the more it comes to feel like theirs, and the more
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Where Value Is Earned Day 184 – 3 July He Let It Stand “And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.” (Genesis 2:19, KJV) The Generosity of Being Trusted There is a rare generosity in handing someone a job you could finish faster and better yourself, then stepping back and letting
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Where Value Is Earned Day 183 – 2 July Made to Make “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” (Genesis 1:27, NKJV) The Worker on the First Page Before the Bible introduces a single human task, it shows God Himself
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Where Value Is Earned Day 182 – 1 July Worth Before the Wage “The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.” (Genesis 2:15, ESV) Before Anyone Was Paid An allotment gate makes a particular sound at first light, a cold clack of metal
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June – For the Gospel’s Sake Day 181 – 30 June Your crown has names For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? For ye are our glory and joy. (1 Thessalonians 2:19–20, KJV) After a whole
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June – For the Gospel’s Sake Day 180 – 29 June The love that takes hold For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. (2 Corinthians 5:14, NIV) What makes a person do the difficult, costly, faintly unreasonable things that the watching world struggles to
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June – For the Gospel’s Sake Day 179 – 28 June The crown time cannot touch Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. (1 Corinthians 9:25, NKJV) We began this week standing in a Corinthian stadium, watching a runner cross the line and stoop to receive his
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June – For the Gospel’s Sake Day 178 – 27 June Look where you’re going …forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13–14, ESV) The past has a powerful gravity, and most
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