How shall we then work

After Genesis 1:27 - 2:15 

Created perfectly, to be done

perfectly, work joined

the rest of creation with

the fall, cursed life the rest

of creation was cursed. It

became what we know as 

work – hard, difficult,

exhausting, often deceptive,

confusing, harsh, humiliating –

all the things that happened

when man fell.

 

To redeem work, as to redeem

life, a sacrifice was needed,

required, mandated. And

the sacrifice was made,

redeeming us and pointing

to the way work is to be done.

Still fallen, as we are still

fallen, the light illuminates

the path for our work. 

We are to work as the redeemer’s

servants.

 

Photograph by Jesse Orrico via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

In Case I Die Unexpectedly – poem by Rachel Welcher at Mere Orthodoxy.

 

The Future of New Calvinism – Tim Challies.

 

Fear – Bill Grandi at Living in the Shadow.