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.
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord and not for men, knowing that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward; for you serve the Lord Christ.
Be diligent to present yoʋrself to God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly teaches the word of truth.
But be doers of the word and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
We urge you to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own affairs, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you, so that you may walk properly toward outsiders and not be in need of anything.
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.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by works of the law.
And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance so that you will always have everything you need to abound in every good work.
Therefore, my beloved friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for God is the one at work in you, granting you the will and power to do so, according to his good pleasure.
Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world as you hold firmly to the word of life. Then I will have a reason to boast in the day of Christ that I did not run 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.
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
For we are fellow workers of God; you are God’s field, God’s building.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive his due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.