“Do everything in Love.” (1 Cor. 16.14)

How can you do everything in love if you don’t like your job?

Do everything in love? Really? If you dig ditches all day long in inclement weather? If you work in a small cubical staring at a computer screen for hours on end? If you work at a big non-personal factory doing repetitive work hour after hour? Or, if you’re forced to work with disagreeable, dishonest, even vile, people, who bring you down all day? Can you do thatin love?

The answer is “yes” if you change your motivation  

Many people work at their nine-to-five jobs for selfish reasons.Their motivation is to get money, to eat, and to pay their bills.That is their basic motivation for getting up and going to work everyday, and they hate their jobs! They think of it as “the daily grind”. If that describes you, you’re probably unhappy at what you do.

However

If you change the reason you go to work, no matter what or where that is, to being there as God’s representative. And there to be His eyes, ears, hands, and mouth, within your working world. And that you’re there to please Him, as His ambassador, that will change everything for you!

Love is the ultimate motivation, especially at work!

The highest motivation for any kind of work is love. When you do anything in love, that pleases God. When you change your motivation for going to work, to please God, that changes your motivation. Because God is love! (1 John 4:8). And when you are working for Him, you are actually doing what you do in love.

“Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men,” (Col. 3:23)

 How do you do that?

“Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone” (Rom. 12:16-18 NIV).

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.” (1 John 4:7-12 ESV)

 Love keeps you going when you feel like giving up

“We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thess. 1:3 NIV)

Therefore

Work for God and you’re then working in love because God is love.

“Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.” (Col. 3:17)