I want to start a new series about the dignity of work. The idea is that these notes could be used to do a five minute devotion each day with young people we are training,.

They could be your children or maybe those in our ministry. This is being written especially with the mission field in mind.

When we work we follow the example our Father set for us

Genesis 2:3  And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

• The first mention of work is God working.
• Without His work in creating and making we would not be here
• The Bible starts with God working
• All of His creation should follow His example
  
  
• God worked six days and then rested the seventh
• Follow His example-work and rest correctly
• Take that day off to reflect on God and all He has done
  
• Take work as your chance to be creative and accomplish something with your life
  
  
• If work were a bad thing then God would not have been working
• God doesn’t sin or participate in sin
• God worked so if I want to be like Him I will work too
• No excuse being lazy. 
  
  
• Work is not negative but positive. 
• He created everything 
• He made us and the entire world
• When He finished He saw that it was very good
  
  
• Feel wonderfully spiritual when you work because you are following your Father's Example
• We learn by imitating, so imitate your Father
• Much of our problem is that we have been imitating others who do not imitate our Father
• Realize you were created by a Worker to work

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Theodore Roosevelt

 Mark Water, The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations (Alresford, Hampshire: John Hunt Publishers Ltd, 2000), 1132.

The Dignity of Work

First Mention of Work

There was work before the fall