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All work is for God, in a certain sense. We do our business for him. We keep house for him. We drive the team, or run the engine, or keep the books, or sell the goods, or carry the mail, or sew the seams, or build the house, for him. Hence we must do honest and good work always, whatever our occupation. It is all for God’s eye. Yet it is true that besides what we call our week day work, all of us have special work to do for God, our “Father’s business.” We are in this world for Christ.
Part of our duty, in addition to our secular affairs, is to do good in the ways that our divine Master may indicate, to perform the tasks of love and service that he may allot to us. All of our busy days, for example, we are to be gentle, kindly, patient, Christly, to every one whose life touches ours. In the heaviest pressure of our task work we must never fail to do the kindness that we are called to do. We must never be too much occupied in this world’s affairs to do the part of the Good Samaritan, if by our path we find a wounded brother. We must get into every one of our days some work for Christ. We all remember the story of the king who counted that day lost in which some other life had not been made happier. That day is lost in a Christian’s life which has no record of blessing to the world and glory to God.