We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
All that men will serve God with must be done in Faith, viz. in the Spirit. It is the Spirit that maketh the work perfect, and acceptable in the sight of God. All that a man undertaketh and doeth in Faith, he doth in the Spirit of God, which Spirit of God doth co-operate in the work, and then it is acceptable to God.
The Lord has a way of working in our lives, and sometimes he brings us down low to bring new values back to our life.
In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.
God buries His workmen but carries on His work.