With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds; let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth
God's work must truly be our own.
Most o' aw, rating 'em as so much Power, and reg'latin 'em as if they was figures in a soom, or machines: wi'out loves and likens, wi'out memories and inclinations, wi'out souls to weary and souls to hope - when aw goes quiet, draggin on wi' 'em as if they'd nowt o' th' kind, and when aw goes onquiet, reproachin 'em for their want o' sitch humanly feelins in their dealins wi' yo - this will never do 't, sir, till
God's work is onmade.'
"Ah, fair sir, it were woundily hard to tell, they are so many, and do so lap the one upon the other, and being made all in the same image and tincted with the same color, one may not know the one league from its fellow, nor how to count them except they be taken apart, and ye wit well it were
God's work to do that, being not within man's capacity; for ye will note --"
And then of a sudden as she listened it came home to her that the man was Harold Denver, and that she was the woman, and that all
God's work was very beautiful--the green sward beneath her feet, the rustling leaves, the long orange slashes in the western sky.
He sang of the Meat-Eaters as pigs and crows, and sang how fine and good it was for the Fish-Eaters to fight and die doing
God's work, which was the killing of Meat-Eaters.
Wherever they are, we can well believe they are doing
God's work and getting His wages.
'Tis
God's work. An' we was only waitin' for it, for you've never failed in your duty yet.
These six churches are part of nearly 9,100 congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) participating in "
God's work. Our hands." Across the country, thousands of ELCA members will be engaging in service work to make a positive change in their communities, build and deepen relationships, and share God's love.
But by the time he wrote his letter to the Thessalonians, he had become a great encourager because of
God's work in his heart.
Essentially, partnership is
God's work, we are just agents.
You are a true definition of
God's work through the ups and downs you've been through, and your faith has remained steadfast in God....
Their mother also shared it must have been
God's work.
