God Loves the Work of Your Hands
“Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.” – 1 Thessalonians 4:10b – 12 Have you ever thought about the fact that Jesus lived 30 out of His 33 years before He went into vocational ministry? The Messiah spent the first part of His life as what the Bible calls a technoy, or a builder or maker. Though we’ve traditionally thought of His trade as that of a carpenter (and he probably did work with wood), the Lord may also have worked with stone and metal in the course of His day-to-day profession. Regardless of His specific
