Love your job?

Hate your job?

Somewhere in between?

Does God have any advice for us about our work?

As we approach Labor day in the United States…

The top 7 bible verses- Labor Day …

God Himself worked…

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

God asks us to work …

Maybe giving us work is one of the ways God made us in his image…

Genesis 2:15

The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 

…If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

God asks us to work for our families…

1 Timothy 5:8 

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ultimately God asks us to work for Him…

Colossians 3:23-24

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

If giving us work is one way God made us in His image…

He asks us to follow his image one more way…

Genesis 2:2-3

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Exodus 20:9-10 

Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work…

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