It may surprise you that the Bible has a lot to say about work, both God’s work and our work. Here are just a few passages for you to consider:
The “Creation Mandate”
- And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (Genesis 1:28)
God is a worker
- And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. (Genesis 2:2-3)
Jesus is a worker
- Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? (Mark 6:3)
- I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. John 17:4