In the sermon this past Sunday, we continued the Everyday Gospel series and looked at how the Gospel impacts our work. In Genesis 1 and 2, we see that God created human beings to flourish through work. As a part of God’s original design, untainted by sin, work is the cultivating and harvesting of God’s creation in order to receive God’s good provision. Because of sin, the way humans view and interact with their work became marred and distorted. Rather than being a joy through which we receive God’s good provisions, work has become a burden, full of pain and obstacles. However, through the Gospel, God is restoring our hearts to see our work the way He designed it to be. As Christians, we should work hard and honestly, not for wages or recognition or to make it across the finish line into retirement. The grace of Jesus stirs our hearts to give great effort to our work for God’s glory and the joy of cultivating, creating and keeping as part God’s design for human flourishing. We work hard until the day we enter into eternity, where we will, quite possibly, continue to work as Adam and Eve worked: as a means to receiving God’s good provision for all eternity.
