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Meditation on Work and Responsibility: Ecclesiastes 10:18
In today’s meditation, we explore the important role of work … (visit YouTube for more)
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I need to start today’s meditation with a disclaimer. We’re going to talk about work, and if for you work is difficult for whatever reason, be that through mental health or physical health or lack of opportunity, there is no condemnation for you here at all. In today’s verse we have an observation about the way work can be in life, but this is not to say there’s anything wrong with you if you’re unable to work.
Be blessed as we meditate on Ecclesiastes, chapter 10, verse 18. Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.
Here we have a very practical side of Ecclesiastes. It’s saying, if you’re not going to do the work that you ought to be doing, if you’re not pursuing and discharging your responsibilities, there are consequences.
Maybe there are tiles falling off the roof of your house, and you’re a custodian of that house, and it’s your responsibility, therefore, to make sure that that roof is repaired. Otherwise, things are going to go wrong. You’ll have leaks in your house when it rains.
God has ordained that this world is so set up and that we are so made that work is good for us. But now in a fallen world that’s subject to decay and entropy, things break down and we need to repair them. And this involves work.
One of the reasons why I love Ecclesiastes is it deals head on with the problem of life. And so as we face our responsibilities, which include work, let us understand that this is a good thing for us to do, that it is glorifying to God for us to work in so many different roles. There is a place for us in this world, and often that place involves work.
God, please help us to discharge our duties with diligence, so that we are honouring you, our Creator, who did the work of creation to give us somewhere to live. Now, due to our sin, the world is subject to decay and disrepair. But you have charged us with the responsibility of the upkeep of this planet and the things that we build on it. Please help us to continue to be faithful to you and to our duty to you as custodians of this world. Amen.
