Daily text; for Thursday, March 31. 2016

[Queen Esther]

We are God’s fellow workers.—1 Cor. 3:9.

Jehovah is a worker who takes pleasure in what he does. (Ps. 135:6; John 5:17) To allow his intelligent creatures to experience a similar joyful and gratifying feeling of accomplishment, Jehovah has assigned them pleasant and satisfying work. For example, he involved his firstborn Son in His creative work. (Col. 1:15, 16) During his prehuman existence, Jesus was beside God in heaven “as a master worker.” (Prov. 8:30) From beginning to end, the Bible contains examples showing that Jehovah has always assigned work to his spirit sons. After Adam and Eve sinned and were ejected from their Paradise home, God “posted at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubs and the flaming blade of a sword that was turning continuously to guard the way to the tree of life.” (Gen. 3:24) And Revelation 22:6 reveals that Jehovah “sent his angel to show his slaves the things that must shortly take place.” w14 10/15 3:1, 2