August 7: Delight and Goodwill.
The Best Life Has to Offer.
Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor, this also, I saw, was from the hand of God.--Ecclesiastes 2:24, NKJV
AT THE CREATION, labor was appointed as a blessing. It meant development, power, happiness. The changed condition of the earth through the curse of sin has brought a change in the condition of labor; yet though now attended with anxiety, weariness, and pain, it is still a source of happiness and development. And it is a safeguard against temptation. Its discipline places a check on self-indulgence, and promises industry, purity, and firmness. Thus it becomes a part of God's great plan for our recovery from the Fall....
...While God has created and constantly controls all things, He has endowed us with a power not wholly unlike His. To us has been given a degree of control over the forces of nature. As God called forth the earth in its beauty out of chaos, so we can bring order and beauty out of confusion. And though all things are now marred with evil, yet in our complete work we feel a joy akin to His, when, looking on the fair earth, He pronounced it "very good."--Education, 214.
Whatever you do, do it heartily,
as to the Lord and not to men,
knowing that from the Lord you will receive
the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
--Colossians 3:23, 24, NKJV
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The Best Life Has to Offer.
Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor, this also, I saw, was from the hand of God.--Ecclesiastes 2:24, NKJV
AT THE CREATION, labor was appointed as a blessing. It meant development, power, happiness. The changed condition of the earth through the curse of sin has brought a change in the condition of labor; yet though now attended with anxiety, weariness, and pain, it is still a source of happiness and development. And it is a safeguard against temptation. Its discipline places a check on self-indulgence, and promises industry, purity, and firmness. Thus it becomes a part of God's great plan for our recovery from the Fall....
...While God has created and constantly controls all things, He has endowed us with a power not wholly unlike His. To us has been given a degree of control over the forces of nature. As God called forth the earth in its beauty out of chaos, so we can bring order and beauty out of confusion. And though all things are now marred with evil, yet in our complete work we feel a joy akin to His, when, looking on the fair earth, He pronounced it "very good."--Education, 214.
Whatever you do, do it heartily,
as to the Lord and not to men,
knowing that from the Lord you will receive
the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
--Colossians 3:23, 24, NKJV
o edit.
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