Work Well Done is Work Done With Love

Our work can and should be the means of bringing many people to know Christ. For many centuries, manual work was looked down on as no more than a way of earning a living and was considered to be something basically worthless or degrading. Nowadays materialistic societies tend to classify people according to ‘how much they make’ and to their ability to obtain a greater level of material well-being at more or less any cost. It is time for us Christians to shout from the rooftops that work is a gift from God and that it makes no sense to classify men differently, according to their occupation, as if some jobs were nobler or of less significance than others. Work, all work, bears witness to the dignity of man to his dominion over creation and is an opportunity to develop one’s personality.

It is time for us Christians to shout from the rooftops that work is a gift from God

Many people go to ‘work’ every morning as if they were going to the galleys, to row a ship to a destination they are neither aware of nor care about; all they look forward to is the weekend and the paycheck. This sort of work, evidently, can do nothing to ennoble or sanctify man, and only with difficulty can it develop his personality and be of real benefit to society. We must ask ourselves:

How hard do we try to do things perfectly and punctually?  

For what or for whom do we work for?  

Do we always carry out every little detail of our work as carefully and considerately as we can? 

Work well done is work done with love. To have a proper regard for the task we are engaged in is, perhaps, the first step in ennobling it and raising it to the level of the supernatural. We have to put our heart into the things we do, and not just do them mechanically, automatically, ‘because we haven’t any option.’

Our work can and should be the means of bringing many people to know Christ and I am blessed that I have an opportunity in my own occupation to perform this each and every day.