“Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is a man’s servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work’s servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.”
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881) in Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical, compiled by Charles Noel Douglas (London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1917) 1984.
We don’t work for money; we work to bring glory to God. Wages are but a by-product. Work was made for us, before the fall of man, as part of God’s design, His economy of all things (cf. Genesis 1:28; 2:15).
Let’s resolve to work today in way that reflects His generosity, His kindness, His love (cf. Colossians 3:17, 23-24).
Then, at the end of the day, let us take time for prayerful, personal reflection (cf. The Daily Examen of Ignatius) in order to detect God’s presence and discern his direction for our work.
Our daily work may be our greatest platform for exhibiting Christian generosity.