The grace life does not merely teach us to stop doing bad things, but it also instructs us to start doing good things, Titus 2:11,12. If a thief is convicted by the grace gospel, then God expects that thief to stop stealing and find a job so he can provide for his needs and others!
- God calls work “the thing which is good”.
- Work is not something to be avoided; it is something to be embraced for the Lord’s glory!
When the Lord Jesus Christ put the first man, Adam, on earth, that man had a divine commission. Adam was not to simply loaf around and do nothing: “And the LORD God took the man, and put him in the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it”, Gen 2:15. Adam was to protect that garden, to till its ground, to prepare it for Jesus Christ to come and dwell in it with him and Eve.
Friends, may we work to provide for our families, 1Tim 5:8, and may we work to help those who truly are needy. In the words of God, the Holy Spirit, that is, “the thing which is good!”
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