The Calendar tells me that today is Labor Day! However, most people are not laboring, but are enjoying a day off from their labors----spending time with family, perhaps enjoying the last picnic of the summer. And while we do sometimes need a vacation, change of pace, etc., labor is both good and needful.
When God first made man, He gave him work to do. The Lord God planted a garden for man, but it was up to Adam to take care of it. Genesis 2:15 tells us: "And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." We see, then, that it is a God-given privilege to be able to do useful work. In Ecclesiastes, we read: "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might."
No matter what the job is that has been provided for us to do, it is important for us to remember and obey the admonition given us in the 3rd chapter of Colossians: "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ." And again, in I Corinthians, the Apostle Paul tells us "....your labor is not in vain in the Lord."
Praise the Lord!! "Let us labor for the Master from the dawn till setting sun"!
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