The Love Of Work!
“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
and the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
the mountains shall drip with sweet wine, and
all the hills shall flow with it.”
Amos 9:13
Working: People Talk About What They Do All
Day
and How They Feel About What They Do
is a name of a 1974 book by the late journalist
Studs Terkel. The author interviewed scores of
“ordinary” people to explore how work results
in the discovery of meaning in life—or not.
Because work can be difficult, we may resent
it. But because humans were created to work
(Genesis 1:26; 2:15),
it's incredibly rewarding.
What if work could be both enjoyable and
rewarding at the same time?
While the Bible doesn’t describe work in the
Millennium specifically, we do know that all
of creation will reflect God’s created
order
and purposes without the constraints of sin.
Prophet Jeremiah saw it as a time of
abundance in the earth with the souls
of mankind being “like a
well-watered
garden” (Jeremiah 31:12).
When work makes you weary, look to
the
day when your work will be the ultimate
expression of God’s gifts and purpose
in your
life.
"A machine can do work;
only life can bear fruit."
Andrew Murray
