This week on the Faithfully Working podcast Addison continues in Genesis and Work. What does God's word have to say about work, calling and vocation? Turns out, a lot.
Our lives are filled with longings. Longings for restored relationships or satisfaction and contentment in our current situations. Longing for a cured disease or illness. A longing for things to be made right again. Have you ever wondered what it was like for Adam and Eve to walk out of the Garden of Eden? To look back over their shoulders and see a place that they once lived and had fullness of life with God, but now are vanished from? My guess is they felt a sense of longing to return. How does that interact with our working lives? Let's look at Genesis 3: 22-24 to find out more.
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Quotes from the episode:
"In Eden in their sinless state, Adam and Eve rightly anticipated an eternity of life with God, who is the source of life. Having sinned, they are now driven out into the world to earn their living by the sweat of their brow, bear children in pain, and at last die and return to the dust from which they were made." (James Montgomery Boice)
“We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, it's gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.” (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Westminster Shorter Catechism Question and Answer 1
Q: What is the chief end of man?
A: Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.
Further Scripture Reading:
1 Corinthians 10:31. So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Romans 11:36. For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen
Psalm 73:24-26. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
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