Ecclesiastes 9:10 (NIV) Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
Titus 2:9-10 (MSG) 9 Guide slaves into being loyal workers, a bonus to their masters—no back talk, 10 no petty thievery. Then their good character will shine through their actions, adding luster to the teaching of our Savior God.
Ephesians 6:5-7 (CEB) 5 As for slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling and with sincere devotion to Christ. 6 Don't work to make yourself look good and try to flatter people, but act like slaves of Christ carrying out God's will from the heart. 7 Serve your owners enthusiastically, as though you were serving the Lord and not human beings.
It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty. To go to Communion worthily gives God great glory, but to take food in thankfulness and temperance gives him glory too. To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, gives him glory too. He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
