God of shop and marketplace, of farm and studio,
Factory and shipping lane, of school and busy home:
Bless the product of our hands.
Redeem our work for Kingdom-use.
By Your grace, our efforts stand,
All offered up to You.
There in Eden, You proclaimed that we should work the earth –
Stewards over all we named, delighting in their worth.
Through our fall we brought decay, lost access to Jehovah’s rest.
Through the cross, we rest in faith, and all our labor’s blessed.
In Your image we are made:
Creative like You are, forming goods for use and trade.
Just like You formed the stars.
Send us out in power and skill to worship through each task assigned.
By Your Spirit we fulfill the holy, grand design.
~ Bobby Gilles