Work is a glorious thing. And if you stop and think about it, the
most enjoyable kinds of leisure are a kind of work. Both these facts are
true because the essence of work, as God designed it before the Fall,
was creativity — not aimless, random doing, but creative, productive
doing.
The Primal Worker
When God did his primal work, he created the world. That is the
essence of work. Then he created us in his image, and put us in the
world he made, and said, “Let them have dominion . . . over all the
earth. . . . And the Lᴏʀᴅ God took the man and put him in the garden of
Eden to work it and keep it” (Genesis 1:26; 2:15).
In other words, God is the primal worker, and we are created to go on
working. His primal work was to create out of nothing. Our ongoing work
is to create out of his creation. This is a glorious thing.
The Essence of Work
This is the ultimate reason behind the fact that in the New
Testament, the main word for “work” refers both to the act of working
and to the product of the work. Continue at John Piper
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