Trabalhar para Deus
Trabalhar para Deus vai além do ofício secular. É dedicar a vida inteira — palavras, ações e atitudes — ao serviço do Reino, reconhecendo que cada tarefa pode glorificar o Senhor.
Servindo ao Senhor em tudo
Quando trabalhamos como para Deus, cada ação se torna um ato de adoração. Não importa a tarefa — o que importa é o coração dedicado.
Do whatever you do really well, as if you’re doing it for God, and not for people, because you know that the Lord will give you your reward—an inheritance! You’re serving Christ the Lord!
Make sure you work hard so you can present yourself to God and gain his approval. Be a worker that doesn’t need to be embarrassed, using the word of truth correctly.
But do what the word says—don’t just listen to it and delude yourselves.
Try to live a quiet life, minding your own business, doing your own work, as we’ve already explained to you, so that your way of life may be respected by non-Christians and you won’t have to rely on anyone to provide what you need.
Chamados para as boas obras
Fomos criados em Cristo Jesus para boas obras, que Deus preparou de antemão para que andássemos nelas. Não somos salvos por obras, mas para obras.
We’re the product of what God does, created in Christ Jesus to do good, which God already planned that we should do.
but we know that nobody is made right by doing what the law demands—it is only through trusting in Jesus Christ. We have trusted in Christ Jesus so that we could be made right by placing our confidence in Christ, and not through doing what the law says—because nobody is made right by observing the requirements of the law."
God is able to graciously provide you with everything, so that you will always have all you need—with plenty to help others too.
So, my good friends, continue to work towards the goal of salvation with complete reverence and respect for God, following what you were told—not just when I was with you, but even more so now I’m away from you. For it’s God who is working within you, creating the will and the ability to do what he wants you to do. Do everything without complaining or arguing so that you’ll be sincere, innocent of any wrong. Be God’s blameless children living in the middle of a dishonest and corrupt people. Shine among them as lights to the world, holding out to them the word of life. That way I’ll have something to be proud of when Christ returns, proving I didn’t run around and work for nothing!
A missão do cristão
O chamado a trabalhar para Deus inclui a Grande Comissão: fazer discípulos de todas as nações, cooperando com Ele na expansão do Reino.
So go and make disciples of people of all nations, and baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Anyone who trusts in me and is baptized will be saved, but anyone who chooses not to trust will be condemned.
We are workers together with God—and you are God’s field, his building.
For all of us must appear before Christ’s seat of judgment. Each of us will receive what we deserve for what we have done in this life, whether it is good or bad.