Sunday Special: Work Serve, Serve to Work

SUNDAY'S SPECIAL

☆☆☆ WORK ☆☆☆

Today let us reflect on, digest and share on the important concept of WORK.

To work is to do something that involves mental or physical effort.

WORK is LIFE. 

There can be no meaningful and impactful life without WORK.

Work is a BLESSING not a CURSE as some people perceive it.

At the root of responsible, impactful and meaningful life is WORK.

THE MIND OF GOD ABOUT WORK

1 Thessalonians ch 4 v 11-12

And make it your habit to lead a quiet life, you should mind your own business and WORK WITH YOUR OWN HANDS just as we told you. So that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not depend on any body.

Colossians ch 3 v 23

And whatever you do, do it with all your heart as to the Lord not unto man.

Proverbs ch 12 v 24

Work hard and become a leader, be lazy and become a slave.

2 Thessalonians ch 3 v 10

Whoever refuses to work is not allowed to eat.

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As you go about your work, know that

☆Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

☆Henry Ford says-Whether you think you can do it or you cannot do it, you are right!!!

☆Have a positive ATTITUDE towards work, think positive about work.

☆Work enhances Human dignity and honour. 

☆Laziness and refusing to work brings shame and frustration in life.

☆Work is the pathway to individual independence and a necessity to HUMAN PROSPERITY and SURVIVAL. 

☆An individual's work creates private property. An individual therefore has property in the free and creative use of his or her time, energy and abilities.

☆Work requires an individual to spend his or her time and energy to do the work that needs to be done.

☆One needs to work to earn a living and develop one's talents. 

☆People who work and get paid in the labour market can sustain themselves and their loved ones. They can save their money and have enough wealth to spend on what makes them happy. These people give meaning to their existence and shape their lives based on the work they do.

☆Work puts our energy to proper use. Unused energies creates disorder making people mentally unhappy and physically unhealthy. 

☆Laziness/idleness is more painful and tiresome than work. 

☆The most difficult work to do, is to do nothing, because you do not know when you will finish it.

☆Even the most unpaid, unimportant and unpleasant work is better than doing NO WORK AT ALL.

☆ When you are a grownup and healthy person, but by free will, you choose not to work, then somebody else will have to work and produce wealth for you. The wealth then is not your own, but for the one who gives it to you. That person will indirectly control your needs and desires, you literally become a SLAVE to that person and a BEGGAR who is left with no choice but to depend on others for survival.

FIVE WORK PARALYSING STATEMENTS WHICH YOU SHOULD REFRAIN YOURSELVES FROM SAYING ARE:

1-IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. 

2-I CAN'T DO IT.

3-I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO IT.

4-I AM TRYING. 

5-I AM DEFEATED.

THREE HINDRANCES TO PROGRESS IN LIFE:

1-EXCUSES

2-DELAY and

3-PROCRASTINATION 

☆Where by procrastination I am referring to the negative habit of always pushing forward, what you should be doing now or today, leading to this common statements, I WILL DO IT TOMORROW and tomorrow never ends.

In conclusion 

Our God is a working God and desires that all of us should work to become the fulness of what He has created us to become

I wish to encourage all of us to love work and do it willingly without being pushed to work.

There is no meaningful and impactful life without work.

Work hard and make yourself difficult to replace at your workplace. 

WORK TO SERVE AND SERVE TO WORK.

Wishing you a blessed Sunday.

Pastor Morris Odung Omara Apakaca 

Pastor at Victory Outreach Church Lira University Branch Church and

Senior Education Officer-SEO 

Dokolo District Local Government.