WORK AND REST (GENESIS 2-3)
Posted on August 31st, 2010
God made us to work…and sometimes it’s satisfying, but lots of the time it can be pretty frustrating!
Ever had a day at work like this…
Genesis 2:2-3,15
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done…15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
Genesis 3:17-19
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
So is that it? Work sucks and then you die?
Thankfully no. We were made for much more than that!
Instead of looking for the prefect job, or an endless holiday, what you’re really yearning for is to enter the rest God has for His people…now, and into eternity.
Listen to the Sermon here:
Genesis 2:2-3,15; 3:17-19
