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 you{} do, work heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men;24 knowing that from the Lord you{} will receive the recompense of the inheritance: you{} serve as slaves to the Lord Christ.
15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed worker, correctly handling the word of truth.
22 But be{} doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your{} own selves.
11 and that you{} make it your aim to be quiet, and to participate in your{} own [things], and to work with your{} own hands, even as we charged you{};12 that you{} may walk becomingly toward those who are outside, and may have need of 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 for good works, which God prepared in advance that we should walk in them.
16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh be justified.
8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you{}; that you{}, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work:
12 So then, my beloved, even as you{} have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your{} own salvation with fear and trembling;13 for it is God who works in you{} both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.14 Do all things without murmurings and questionings:15 that you{} may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you{} are seen as lights in the world,16 holding forth the word of life; that I may have something of which to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither 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.
9 For we are God's coworkers: you{} are God's husbandry, God's building.
10 For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each may receive the things [done] in the body, according to what he has participated in, whether [it is] good or bad.