Ok simply put how many of us are in a relationship? Single like me huh? Well you are in a relationship.

Pop quiz. I say a word and you tell me what comes into your mind. The very first thing. No second guess unless it follows the first.

Relationship.

Ok what came in there? having someone to love or love you such as a significant other? Family perhaps? father, wife, mother, daughter, brother, sister...?

What about the church? As in the body that Christ died for not the pretty building down the street? What about that relationship?

What about work? Not what you do for a living but work. How do you relate to the blessing of work. I can't believe I called it a blessing in my current situation but it is whether I like to admit it or not.

Who we are does come out in relationships. Even in my despair I have overlooked several important relationships. In my sin I overlook my relationship with God and Jesus. I do not see my work as a relationship. I do not see what I do at church as a relationship.

Think about it.

At work do we cut corners? Act cocky and prideful? Put others down? Complain? Not care about the work we produce quality or quantity? But that is just work we may say. Ok let's take that same relational aspect home. Will we not cut corners with family? Will we not get angry at roommates? Will we not care?

It is who we are. Not our jobs but what we work. Do we work for man or God?

The least we do unto man is the most we do unto God.

Relationships bring out who we are. And work is one relationship I have overlooked for so long. It feeds into many sins and into every area of our lives. What out job titles are don't mean a thing. How we work and live does.

Need another example? I hate my job so bad I want out and do not want to bear through it anymore. Put that same attitude into marriage. If I do not hang tough at work who is to say that I won't be strong during rough patches in a marriage?

Do I have your attention yet?