God @ Work

One of the most captivating, thrilling and moving quotes I have used in the current series on work at LBC is this one from Tim Keller.   I'll be honest and say it puts a lump in my throat every time I read it.  And it does that because it's true; profoundly true.   God wants to use us where we are, in whatever we are doing - everything can have dignity if we do it for Him.   

Farming takes the physical material of soil and seed and produces food.

Music takes the physics of sound and rearranges it into something beautiful and thrilling that brings meaning to life.

When we take fabric and make a piece of clothing,

when we push broom and clean room,

when we use technology to harness the forces of electricity,

when we take an uninformed, naive human mind and teach it a subject,

when we teach a couple how to resolve their relational disputes,

when we take simple materials and turn them into a poignant work of art –

we are continuing God’s work of forming filling and subduing.

Whenever we bring order out of chaos,

whenever we draw out creative potential,

whenever we collaborate and “unfold” creation beyond where it was when we found it

we are following God's pattern of creative cultural development.

Just as he subdued the earth in his work of creation so he calls us now to labour as his representatives in a continuation and extension of that work of subduing.

Keller, Every Good Endeavour