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Genesis 2:1\u20133, 8 (NIV84)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 2<\/sup>By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3<\/sup>And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done… 8<\/sup>Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exodus 20:8\u201311 (NIV84)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8<\/sup>\u201cRemember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9<\/sup>Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10<\/sup>but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 11<\/sup>For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There is a persistent notion, inherited from the ancient Greeks and subtly endorsed by our modern worship of leisure, that work is, at best, a necessary evil. For the high-minded Greek philosophers, the gods did not toil; they left such demeaning things to humanity. Labor, especially manual labor that involved the stuff of the earth, was seen as beneath a being of any true worth. How utterly astonishing, then, is the portrait of God in Genesis. Here is a God who works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The text does not shy away from this. It states plainly that on the seventh day, God rested from all the work<\/em> He had done. In fact, He puts in what we might call a full work-week. This single idea ought to revolutionize our view of labor. Work is not a curse that fell upon humanity; it is an activity that finds its origin in the character of God Himself. It therefore possesses a divine and unshakable dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notice, too, the kind<\/em> of work God does. He is not merely a distant commander issuing orders. The text says He “planted a garden.” This is the work of a manual laborer, one who gets His hands in the dust of the ground\u2014the very dust He would soon use to form man. In a world that so often creates a dishonorable hierarchy of labor\u2014placing “information” work on a pedestal while despising the farmer, the builder, or the mother\u2014this image is a radical corrective. It tells us that all work that cultivates, creates, and brings order from chaos is a reflection of divine activity. The carpenter’s craft, in this light, is no less noble than the philosopher’s logic. In complete contradiction to the ancient world’s view, the God of the Hebrews comes into the world not as a king demanding ease, but as a carpenter with sawdust on his clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflect, Share & Pray:<\/strong> How does the knowledge that God Himself is a worker, who finds dignity and purpose in His labor, reshape your attitude toward your own daily tasks, whether paid or unpaid? Talk to God about your attitude toward work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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