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![]() This "Baby Doll" Southdown lamb on the Old Windmill Farm appears to be smiling up at Brooksyne as she took this photo! "The Carpenter" Message summary: What is your life's work today? "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving" (Colossians 3:23, 24). ![]() "Then Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees and carpenters and stonemasons; and they built a house for David" (2 Samuel 5:11). "Is not this the carpenter?" (Mark 6:3). ![]() Today's first text is the first in the Bible to reference a carpenter. "Then Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees and carpenters and stonemasons; and they built a house for David." The dictionary defines carpenter as "a person who builds or repairs wooden structures". All of us, in one way or another, have benefited from a carpenter's skills. ![]() ![]() We also consider how Jesus might have enjoyed using some of the modern tools available to carpenters such as the chop saw, one of my favorite newer tools! What is your life's work today? A few of you just might be carpenters. Readers of this daily encouragement series come from a host of different backgrounds and work in a vast array of different vocations. Of course some of you are students and a good number of our readers are retired. No matter our vocational calling, craft, or life skill, we are all called to serve God. When Jesus worked as a carpenter surely He was serving God no less than when, at the appointed time, He began His preaching ministry. Jesus was in His Father's perfect will, working in accordance to His time line His entire earthly life. This goes back to when He informed his parents as a twelve year old, "I must be about my Father's business" (Luke 2:49 KJV). Some of you sense that God has something different for you, some other form of service. And He very well may. Perhaps you sense a call to "ministry." But until that calling is fully realized, remember the skilled, diligent, honest Jewish carpenter who became our Lord and Savior. The Apostle Paul wrote, "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving" (Colossians 3:23, 24). Be encouraged today, Stephen & Brooksyne Weber ![]()
(See Philippians 2:15)
Brooksyne's note: As we wrote about those "called to ministry" I consider the many, many who may not be credentialed by a ministerial institution but are given to ministry wholeheartedly. In our view many are just as effective as those credentialed and in some cases even more so. Few of them receive financial compensation and they often invest their own resources expecting no reimbursement. It isn't the certificate, license, or title that counts but the giving of oneself to ministry and the yielding of one's giftings that pleases our Lord and gives testimony throughout the community. ![]() We visited our friends and I had arrived at their home before Brooksyne. As Brooksyne walked toward the house I caught this cute view of the youngest child holding the screen open until Brooksyne got to the house. ![]() Mama duck and her ducklings. (Photo by Jesse Lapp) ![]() Two young goats. ![]() We see a lot of horse and buggies and other forms of conveyance but we rarely see the Plain people just riding a horse, let alone a woman! Brooksyne took this photo from inside our car, thus the air/heater vents overlaid the photo. ![]() We've had wheat harvest here in Lancaster County and passed these wheat shocks near Paradise, PA. Today's Suggested Music and Supplemental Resources "Use Me" Video Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir "Lord I Offer My Life" Video Don Moen "Jesus Was A Carpenter" Video Singer not identified "I Am a Carpenter (Joseph's Song)" Video Cher & Gene Klosner and the "Fire Choir." ![]() Send a message to Stephen & Brooksyne To receive the "Daily Encouragement" each Monday-Friday through email see this page to subscribe to our email list. You can also subscribe to the Wordpress rss feed or through a Wordpress email subscription. (See the email subscription on the right side after opening this page.) ![]() ![]() Permissions: Please feel free to pass on, reproduce and distribute any material on Daily Encouragement Net, in part or in whole, in any format, provided that you do not alter the wording in any way or charge a fee beyond the cost of reproduction. It is our desire to spread this material, not protect or restrict it. We do request that you keep the contact, copyright and subscription information intact. Scripture references are from The Holy Bible: New International Version. © 1984 by International Bible Society; NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. and the King James Version. Personal Mission Statement: "I am created by God to bring Him glory. Through God's Son Jesus Christ I have been redeemed and make it my life's goal to please the Lord. My mission in life is to honor God through my faith and obedience and prepare myself and all whom I may influence for eternity." © Copyright 2017 Stephen C. Weber - All Rights Reserved Daily Encouragement Net - 495 Kraybill Church Road - Mount Joy, PA 17552 USA |