Learn From the Great Teacher

Continue with Why We Need to Work

How did Jesus feel about doing this work?  DO you think that he wanted to do it? -Jesus said: "My food is for me to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work." (John 4:3)  How much do you like to eat your favorite food?-This gives you an idea of how much Jesus like the work that God gave him to do.

God made us so that learning to work helps to make us happy. He says that His gift to man is that he  should "rejoice in his work."  So if you learn to work when you are young, you whole life will be more enjoyable. -Ecclesiastes 5:19.

That does not mean  that a young child can do the work of an older person, but we can all do some work. Your parents may go out to work day after day to earn money so that your family  has food to eat and a home to live in. And you should know, there is much work that needs to be done around the home to keep it neat and clean.

What work is there that you can do that will be a blessing to the whole family?-You can help set the table, wash the dishes, take out the garbage, clean your room, and pick up your toys. Perhaps you already do some of those things.  That work is really a blessing to the family.

Let's see how work like that is a blessing. 

Toys are to be put away after you play.

Why would you say that is important? -It helps to keep the house neat, and it can also prevent accidents. If you don't pick up your toys, your mother may come along some day with her arms full and step on one of them. She may trip and fall and hurt herself. She may even have to go to the hospital. Wouldn't that be terrible?-So when you put away your toys after you play, that is a blessing to all. 

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