"God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we only had leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures."
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perhaps a sometimes displeasure with work is due to a lack of experience of victory
Good thought. Does remind me of Ecclesiastes which teaches that we are to embrace all of life as a gift from God. To find pleasure in our work and in all else. And that when we do, it is a gift from God. (whilst we keep his commands, of course, the whole duty of humankind)
The ability to work is a gift - I never appreciated it until I had been out of work for 9 months - for various reasons
mark - I agree that we often find our greatest challenges in our work life...yet I've found that God is still at work in those circumstances
Interesting, how certain chores will drain one person but invigorate another, don't you think?
Craver - that's so true...it's wonderful how God made us with different preferences, appropriate for different things he's called us to do
ESI,
on top of that, what a blessing it is to be able to receive and be ministered to by the Lord through the other's abilities.
God bless
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