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Holy to the Lord

On that day HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the Lord's house will be like the sacred bowls in front of the altar. - Zech 14:20

The phrase 'Holy To The LORD' was usually inscribed on the headdress of the High Priest, but here, God, through Zechariah, talks about how this inscription will appear on horses' bells and how the cooking pots will also be made sacred. God shows the closing of the gap between the sacred and the secular - that His Spirit will permeate and transform ‘all’ areas of our lives. Worship is a lifestyle and everything you touch can have God's stamp of holiness on it, through His grace. Worship always directs our attention away from ourselves and towards God. It must be the same way at work. All our work should point towards God.

Day 3 Challenge: Find one thing at your workplace that needs the 'stamp' of God's holiness on it. It could be a secret sin that you are indulging in, it could be a person who makes you angry, it could be a mistake that you covered up and hid or it could be your attitude towards someone or a particular task. Identify this issue and bring it to God in prayer right now. Ask God for help in dealing with this problem; ask Him to make it HOLY TO THE LORD, so that it will glorify Him alone.

Worship is not meant to be partitioned between ‘spiritual’ life and day-to-day life. It must dominate our everyday lives. The Almighty God lived and worked in the form of a human, showing us that He found the form of a carpenter appropriate and comfortable. By becoming a carpenter, He made His workplace holy, setting an example for us in our own fields of work. Let us look at it with new eyes − work and Church are both places of worship.

‘As God's fellow worker, he (man) is to reflect God's creative activity on Monday in the factory, no less than on Sunday when commemorating the day of rest and worship.’ - Carl FH Henry

Father, enable me today to stamp my work with the mark of Your holiness. Amen