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Opening
Chapter one. Created to Work
Chapter two. Work as a Ministry
Chapter three. Work and Ethics
Chapter four. God's Help in Work
Chapter five. The Blessing of Work
Closing
It is 04.30 in the morning and I am sound asleep. The first alarm clock goes off and fills the room with an aggressive chiming. I am 16 years old and still in school, so it is before the age of smart phones that can be set with smooth melodies. Here there are no smooth sounds, only old-fashioned chiming bells. The ringing has, however, little effect on me. Hardly noticing the noise, I reach for the clock and turn it off. But when I set the alarm the evening before, I was smart enough to know that one clock wouldn’t do it. One by one, there are others coming.
One could be hidden under the bed, another in my closet. And since I have to spend time not only turning the alarms off, but also searching for them, I slowly wake up and realize what I have to do. I need to get dressed and go down to the town center, to the newspaper office, and pick up a sack of today’s edition. I will spend the following hours delivering newspapers, no matter the day of the week, the weather or how tired I am.
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But it is very important to understand that miracles like these are the exception – this is not the main way God cares for His children. He will first of all care for you by blessing the daily work you do.
I remember what two of my friends in Norway did when we were young. They needed money, and they came up with what they thought was a good idea. They bought some newspapers and cut the paper in the approximate size of bills (Norwegian kroner). Then they put a pillow over them, and prayed the whole night that God would turn the paper into hundred kroner banknotes. When the sun rose and they removed the pillow, they realized that the paper was still paper, and like everyone else in town they would have to get a job to earn the money they needed!
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