July 2, 2006
What does the worker gain from his toil?
This Bible passage is from Ecclesiastes 3:9–14
“What does the worker gain from his toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God.”
There are some powerful messages that can be taken away from this passage. My thoughts:
- Work is tough and God knows it.
- God worked hard in creating the earth and we should appreciate that.
- Our work should “do good” for others.
- Taking satisfaction in a good day’s work is a gift from God.
I especially like the last point.
When I was a teenager I worked in a supermarket unloading pallets of food from tractor trailers. Believe it or not, there was kind of an “art” to using a hand operated pallet-jack to remove pallets with cases of food stacked 10 feet high. At the end of the workday I would get in my car and when I sat down my whole body would ache – and this made me feel good. I felt like I had done a good, hard day’s work. I took satisfaction in that.
Do you get that feeling when you come home at the end of the day?
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