Jul 12, 2026 · 42 min · 11 segments
Have you ever wondered whether your daily work has a deeper purpose? In this message from Week 4 of the Ordinary Holy series, Pastor Lucas Prado explores how God created work as a gift, calls His…
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And the question is, what is work actually for? Because if work is only about making money, then retirement becomes the whole point.
If work is about achievements, for sure, you'll think that you have not achieved quite enough in life.
But what if God has a much bigger purpose? Here's like what I want you to remember today.
Your work is one of the primary places where God forms you, where God serves others through you, where God is glorified by you.
See, one of the major misconceptions that even we Christians, we have, it is thinking that like work is part of the curse.
Once we start to look for the first pages in the Bible, we see this truth that God, He designs work.
So right here, we see that one of the first pictures that we have of God, it is him, a God who is at work.
Before Adam, before Eve, before sin ever entered the world, like we see this picture of God, not simply seated on a throne, but no, a God that he's working, he's creating, he's designing, he's ordering, he's bringing life where there was none.
I remember reading this children's poem with my kids that says, All things, they're bright and beautiful.
And the question is, what is work actually for? Because if work is only about making money, then retirement becomes the whole point.
If work is about achievements, for sure, you'll think that you have not achieved quite enough in life.
But what if God has a much bigger purpose? Here's like what I want you to remember today.
Your work is one of the primary places where God forms you, where God serves others through you, where God is glorified by you.
See, one of the major misconceptions that even we Christians, we have, it is thinking that like work is part of the curse.
Once we start to look for the first pages in the Bible, we see this truth that God, He designs work.
So right here, we see that one of the first pictures that we have of God, it is him, a God who is at work.
Before Adam, before Eve, before sin ever entered the world, like we see this picture of God, not simply seated on a throne, but no, a God that he's working, he's creating, he's designing, he's ordering, he's bringing life where there was none.
I remember reading this children's poem with my kids that says, All things, they're bright and beautiful.
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