Work: The Meaning of Your Life - A Christian Perspective

By Lester DeKoster

Where do we find the core of life's meaning? Right on the job! At whatever work we do - with head or hand, from kitchen to executive suite, from your house to the White House! "Work is the great equalizer - everyone has to come to it in order to find meaning in living: no short cuts, no detours, no bargain rates."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian's Library Press
• Release date: Oct 12, 2010
• ISBN: 9781880595817

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Reviews for Work

[russwhite · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This week someone asked me, “what motivates you?” It’s an interesting question, and one that deserves a better answer than the one I gave at the moment it was asked — but I was in a hurry out the door to catch a flight, without the moments needed to really think about it. The question is not only valid for me, personally, but for all Christians.This book attempts to put a framework around the motivation to work from a Christian perspective. The most interesting thing about this book, however, is not that the author tries to frame the question of what should motivate Christians to work, but rather the answer the author gives.Work, for DeKoster, is service to God.The author begins by defining work as those things we do for the good of others. Paychecks are fine, he says, but caring for others by taking care of their needs is the real root of work. To back this claim up, he works through the parable of the sheep and the goats (Matthew 25:31), and the parable of the ten coins invested (or not). All the way from Genesis to Revelation, work is shown as something of value, as serving others, even as serving God (Adam and Eve were put in the Garden to work).On this foundation he lays several very interesting conclusions. First, that work is the “chisel with which you carve yourself.” That work not only adds value to others, it also adds value to you in the process. By looking outside yourself to see how you can serve others, you are actually building a Godly character. Second he argues that work is the difference between civilization and barbarism, between a solid economy and a weak one. I can think of no greater lesson our society needs to learn right this moment.It’s not about who’s rich, and who’s poor, it’s about who works.Here is a book worth reading, a book that will show you the true and right motivation of work — to serve others. And here I found an expression of my motivation; the engineer who finds hard problems to solve them, the blogger who writes every day to help others understand, the teacher who really spends hours preparing and teaching lessons in order to bring along the next generation — God’s glory and the service of others are motivation enough.