No legitimate work, undertaken for the glory of God, is menial or meaningless. Hard physical labor wasnt beneath the dignity of the Son of God. Jesus worked as a carpenter for about seventeen years and only about three years doing itinerant ministry. Carpentry was a lowly, ill-paying profession. Yet Jesus was doing Gods work when pounding a nail just as much as He was doing it when preaching on a hillsidebecause He was doing what God wanted Him to do when God wanted Him to do it (p. 143).
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