Day 66: Living Daily in Reality: Why Work?
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God made us free so that we could let his only Son develop the world
through us, but we chose to ignore him and develop the world for
ourselves. He knows there’s nothingness apart from him – and he knew
we’d initially corrupt the human organism through misuse – so he remade
you and me in a parallel universe. Â

You can experience that fact by recognizing it and living accordingly –
only the maker can remake the nature that we have perverted. So we all
live as broken organisms in a broken organism, but both we and it have
been remade by our maker in eternity outside time – as expressed in 29
A.D. by his Son’s crucifixion and resurrection. We can escape the
present unreality of our world and ourselves by rejecting the one and
accepting the other.  You can decide to put your faith in your
maker’s fulfillment of your abilities rather than your enjoyment of
leisure to do what you want. The first leads paradoxically to
enlargement while the second leads to shrinkage.

That’s the choice you have as you think of your work – do you assume
that there is no god that is personally interested in you or your
security?  Or do you assume that you have a loving Father who made you
so that his Son can live in you and develop the world through you by your
work?   There must be some reason why there’s no one else in the
whole world just like you – that’s what our latest DNA research is
finding. Scientists now say that of the twenty thousand genes that run
your whole being – .010% have never occurred in the same way as they do
in you – not in any other person who has ever lived or is living today! Â
You are actually unique – the maker has made no one else like you
– which is what his son, Jesus Christ, implied when he said that
“every hair of your head is numberedâ€(cid:157).  When our maker turned to
his son and said “let us make man in our imageâ€(cid:157), he knew that he
would have to make billions of people like his son to express his own
infinitely varied nature.  So you are alive and different from
everyone else so that our maker’s son can express through you some
likeness of his father that none of the rest of us possess. Â

Christ’s apostle, Paul put it like this – “we are God’s
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, for good works that God has
prepared beforehand that we should walk in themâ€(cid:157). All the
developments and rectifications of the world have been foreseen and
effected by our Maker, but you are the only one he has willed to work the
works that you alone can do – whether inventing the fastest computer or
cleaning the bathroom floor. Work is not just using your mind to get
what you need (our maker will take care of that). Work is using your
mind to understand what particular repairs and improvements to the world
God will carry out through you. In other words, God will “fill the
earth and subdue itâ€(cid:157) through work that his son will do through you that

he will not do through anyone else in just the same way! He gave you a
mind so that you could understand his works and ways and be a co-worker
with him to redeem the world and develop the universe.

Two mighty operations are going on in this planet – one is the clear
demonstration of what life is like without God – the world is
deteriorating and declining in all kinds of ways; but the other operation
is the uplifting and restraining work that our maker’s son has been
given to do – and this work he can do only through your physical
presence.  So you are here so that Christ can do through you a work
that he can do through no one else.

We, of course, have perverted our natures by using our minds to manage
and manipulate the world of things for our own personal benefit.  Thus
our minds become impaired and narrowed by self-interest and we are unable
to see the expansive plans and strategies that our Creator has for us.Â
From time to time He manifests this function of the mind in an Einstein
or Newton, but his desire is that each one of us would use our minds to
understand what particular work He has for us to do. When you wonder what
you should do with your life, find out what things the son of God can do
through you to fill the earth and bring it into the order and beauty God
has in mind.  The last thing you need to concern yourself with is your
food and shelter, because God’s son has said “your heavenly Father
knows you need those thingsâ€(cid:157) and he feeds the birds and clothes the
flowers!