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 Whatever your task, work heartily, as serving the Lord and not men,24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you are serving the Lord Christ.
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
11 to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you;12 so that you may command the respect of outsiders, and be dependent on nobody.
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 for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
16 yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified.
8 And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work.
12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;13 for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.14 Do all things without grumbling or questioning,15 that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,16 holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor 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 Go therefore and make disciples of 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 we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive good or evil, according to what he has done in the body.