“Take your everyday, ordinary life – your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life – and place it before God as an offering.” Rom 12:1 (MSG)
In 2011 we lost a giant in the world of technology - Steve Jobs. One of Jobs’ best-known traits was his attention to detail. He was renowned for being engaged in every single aspect of the design of a product, from the shape of a computer’s casing to its color. His obsession with details extended to areas a customer would never see. For example, Jobs was insistent that the circuit boards inside Apple computers have wires that were straight and beautiful-looking. When engineers would complain that this was unnecessary for the computers’ performance, he refused to back down, asserting that every aspect of a product must be created to the highest standards.
What Steve Job’s knew innately has a spiritual truth about seeking to do all things well even where no-one will see the finished product. Expressing one's freedom in society is the decision to push forward to the moral high-ground and do it in a God honoring way. This means completing our work beautifully and with great care because we have God as an audience who appreciates every detail.
This is the thought at the core of a Christian work ethic: all work should be done with attention to detail and offered up to God where the process and product becomes a prayer; a loving dialogue with God. May the work of our hands in 2012 be offered up as loving prayer to our Lord.
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