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.
23 And whatever you do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord and not to men;24 knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve [the] Lord Christ.
15 [Study] earnestly to present yourself approved to God, a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
22 But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
11 and that you try earnestly to be quiet and to do [your] own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,12 so that you may walk becomingly toward those outside, and that you may lack nothing.
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.
10 For we are [His] workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.
16 knowing that a man is not justified by works of the Law, but through faith [in] Jesus Christ; even we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ, and not by works of the Law. For all flesh will not be justified by works of law.
8 And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you, that in everything, always having all self-sufficiency, you may abound to every good work;
12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, cultivate your own salvation with fear and trembling.13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of [His] good pleasure.14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings,15 so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world,16 holding forth the word of life, so that I may rejoice with you in [the] day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.
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.
19 Therefore go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned.
9 For of God we are fellow-workers, a field of God, and you are a building of God.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive the things done] through the body, according to that which he has done, whether good or bad.