“Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.” -Tim Keller

Work is gross.

Proverbs 6:6-11 CSB – Go to the ant, you slacker!
Observe its ways and become wise.
Without leader, administrator, or ruler,
it prepares its provisions in summer;
it gathers its food during harvest.
How long will you stay in bed, you slacker?
When will you get up from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the arms to rest,
11 and your poverty will come like a robber,
your need, like a bandit.

Proverbs 26:13 CSBThe slacker says, “There’s a lion in the road—
a lion in the public square!”

Work is a god.

Proverbs 23:4 CSB – Don’t wear yourself out to get rich;
because you know better, stop!

Genesis 1:26 CSB – Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl[c]on the earth.”

Genesis 1:28 CSB – God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”

Genesis 2:15 CSB – The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.

Work is good.

Isaiah 65:17 CSB – For I will create new heavens and a new earth;
the past events will not be remembered or come to mind.

Isaiah 65:21-22 CSBPeople will build houses and live in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 They will not build and others live in them;
they will not plant and others eat.
For my people’s lives will be
like the lifetime of a tree.
My chosen ones will fully enjoy
the work of their hands.

Colossians 3:23 NASB – Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord and not for people,

Make your workplace, your worship space.

Romans 12:1 CSB – Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.

Philippians 2:14-15 NIVDo everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky