"May the Lord reward your work, and your wages be full from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to seek refuge” (Ruth 2:12, NASB).
Have you ever thought about the fact that you’re not working for a paycheck, but for the Lord? How diligent are you in the work you perform – paid or unpaid? Because it’s God who’s going to “reward your work.”
When you take pride in your work, people notice. At my former workplace, we had two different ladies who worked for our environmental services and came in to clean the offices in the evenings. You could always tell when Miss Clara was off because the cleaning quality was off with her. Miss Clara didn’t think of her job as menial; she thought of it as working for the Lord and she gave Him her best. We who worked in the areas she cleaned simply benefited from what she’d done in honor of her Heavenly Father.
If you did your work with that same attitude, would you do a better job? As the Lord looks at your heart and sees the real effort you put into a task, do you think He’d pay “your wages” in “full” or might He have to cut your pay for poor performance?
There is a payday coming, you know. Jesus Himself said that “He shall reward every man according to his works” (Matthew 16:27, KJV). Are you looking forward to it or dreading it?
“A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.” (Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.)
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