Work is cursed, though not ineffective.

Because work isn't just pain and toiling for the sake of income, but there is also a joy and excitement in contributing to our community; in flourishing a society and environment for the good of one another. Work is like tending the Garden of Eden again, only now there's people in it.

Yet even as work is cursed with pain and grief, there remains a rest that will by far outweigh our toil. So let us look forward to the day when Jesus returns to take us home to glory—where there will no longer be any curse and we will rest from our own work just as God did from his.

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"He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed."

Genesis 5:29

Imagine.

Imagine if every believer made it their ambition to suffer for the gospel.
At school, on campus, at work, at home, at church, on the streets.
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Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord.. but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.

2 Timothy 1:8