Our Heavenly Father describes His plan to bring about the immortality and eternal life of His children as His work and glory. For many of us, work is a somewhat negatively charged word, often associated with tedium, drudgery, toil, or hard labor. But is this what our Heavenly Father has in mind when He refers to His work? Clearly not, especially since He considers it more or less synonymous with glory. It is not that God is some workaholic busybody that has nothing better to do and so finds ways to make our lives more difficult just to entertain Himself. God is not a joyless drone but a master craftsman. He glories in things that work, that is, things that function perfectly for the purpose for which they were designed. He gets no greater pleasure than adjusting and refining His creations until they work so well they practically sing. He asks us to offer up to Him our broken hearts because He wants to fix them and get them working properly again. He wants us to offer up our contrite spirits because there's nothing He'd rather do than untangle the snarled up strands of our wounded souls so that our spirits may take flight once more. They say that those who love what they do will never work a day in their life, and our Heavenly Father loves what He does more than we can even comprehend. Guiding us back to the right path, nurturing our faith, mending our frayed relationships, organizing every needful thing, and in short, pouring all of His energy into the project of making sure that the universe and everything in it, from individual atoms all the way up to galaxy clusters, is working properly and is filling the measure of its creation - this is God's work and His glory.
