Working in Heaven. Will God be a good CEO to work for? Wait – “will God be a good CEO”? Is that like, as in the next life? In Heaven? We’re going to be working in Heaven? Seriously?
There are so many questions here. First, notice the sign – work harder. White hot letters with a purple glow on a red hot background.
That’s my adjustment to what was a nice cool blue image.
So which one will be the one God has waiting for those who get to Heaven in the next life?
Or maybe this is the one for the other place? And God’s really is a nice cool blue?
Working in Heaven? So many questions
But first, as I mentioned, there are lots of questions.
Will God be the CEO?
Are we really going to work in Heaven? What kind of work will it be? Manuel labor, toiling away at menial boring jobs? Will we have managers between us and God? If so, will they be angels or people?
You can probably come up with more questions. Who knows. Maybe I will before this is done.
God as CEO
Can you imagine God as a CEO? Maybe not in the sense we think of today. Not sitting at a desk with a computer. But will He be jetting around on His private plane? Or vacationing on His mega yacht? Will there be lots of people toiling away, not even able to earn a living wage?
Of course, as the image at the top says, will we be “working harder”? Hot and sweaty all the time because we don’t get any breaks, can’t even take a sip of water, and get docked wages if we dare to miss a quota? And, if we mess up too often because we have no training, will we end up homeless?
Yes, God as CEO, from The Beginning
Maybe you never thought about this before, but take a look at the first verses in the Bible.
The Beginning
Ge 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Ge 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
Ge 1:6 And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
Ge 1:9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
Ge 1:11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
Ge 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
Ge 1:20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
Ge 1:24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Ge 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
Ge 1:27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
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That’s a lot of work.
But who commanded it, who did it, and who watched over it? God, right?
One God. That’s what Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe. Although, Islam mistakenly claims that Jews and Christians believe in multiple Gods. Sorry, but that’s not the case.
However, while we do believe in one God, Christians also believe in what’s come to be known as the Trinity. One God, in three, for lack of a better word, “persons”. If you’re not familiar with the word, or the concept, here’s some background.
TRINITY A description of the God of Christian Scripture, revealed and understood as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; a fundamental doctrine of Christian theology.
Introduction
The word Trinity does not appear in the Bible. However, the doctrine is based on several emphatic assertions that are found throughout the biblical writings:
1. There is only one God (Deut 6:4; Isa 43:10; 46:9; Rom 3:30; 1 Cor 8:4; Jas 2:19).
2. The one whom Jesus called “Father” (John 6:27; 1 Cor 8:6), the incarnate Son (Matt 1:23; John 1:1; Rom 9:5; Col 2:9; Titus 2:13–14; Heb 1:1–3), and the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:3–4; 28:25–27; 2 Cor 3:7–18) all possess the necessary attributes of this God.
3. These three are not identical; they interact with one another and their identities are constituted with respect to one another (Matt 3:16–17; 12:32; 17:5; Luke 3:21–22; 4:1; John 15:26; 16:7–16; 2 Cor 13:14). They act distinctly but in concert with one another (Gen 1:1–3; John 1:1–3; 2 Cor 4:6; Col 1:15–17; Heb 1:2–3).
So, we have the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit.
Now, it’s not obvious in the English words that make up the initial verses in the Bible, but the Hebrew word that gets translated as God is plural. Then, as the background above says, the three “persons” of the one God are made known to us, at least to some extent. At the same time, the Bible also continues to make it clear that there is one, and only one God.
There are three times when Jesus refers to Himself as the Alpha and the Omega. Here’s the last one, from Revelation.
Jesus Is Coming
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Rev 22:12 “Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
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The beginning and the end. The beginning, we read earlier. The end, as given in Revelation. Jesus was there all along.
As for the Holy Spirit, we read about Him in the second verse of Genesis:
… the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters
And He’s still with us now.
One way to look at those three persons of God is that the Father is like the CEO. Jesus is the one actually carrying things out. And the Holy Spirit, other than the short time Jesus walked the earth, is the one we interact with. That was true with David in the Old Testament, and with us today.
From David:
Psalm 51
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Ps 51:10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Ps 51:11 Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
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From Jesus, about us:
Jesus promises the Holy Spirit
Jn 14:15 “If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.”
The Spirit of Truth, that’s the Holy Spirit.
In some way that’s not explained to us, and is beyond our ability to understand, these three – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, make up God.
Remember, while Jesus was 100% man and 100% God, the Spirit of God is, well, 100% God.
And then, the Holy Spirit of God, as near as we can tell from the Bible, is the Spirit of both the Father and the Son.
If you want to know more, I invite you to check out the inset box. Not that we can/will know everything.
But God does seem to feel we should know certain things. Shouldn’t we want to know whatever we can?
In any case, God, the Father, as a kind of CEO seems a reasonable assumption. After all, even Jesus followed the Father’s will.
Why ask about working in Heaven: Will God Be A Good CEO?
So, why am I even asking about this? It’s because of an article I saw on msn.com, titled Billionaire CEO says unemployment ‘has to jump’ to put ‘arrogant’ workers in their place.
After complaining about the current state of employees, Tim Gurner, the founder and CEO of the Gurner Group, said:
“We need to see unemployment rise,” he argued. “Unemployment has to jump 40 to 50 percent, in my view. We need to see some pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around… There’s been a systemic change where the employees feel that the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around.”
Gurner then predicted that enacting massive layoffs would lead to “less arrogance in the employment market.”
Wow. I thought it was awful that the U.S. government wants to see a certain amount of unemployment to make sure the economy was good for everyone else. And that the actual unemployment number is higher than what they report, since you don’t get counted as unemployed unless you’re looking for a job. Do you realize, that means homeless people aren’t considered unemployed by our government?
Anyway – this guy makes the government look amazingly good. And they aren’t!
That got me to thinking, again, about why the good news of the gospel isn’t so good anymore. These are the kinds of people Jesus would’ve been with. Both the billionaire and the unemployed. Don’t believe it?
The billionaire (for his time):
Zacchaeus the Tax Collector
Lk 19:1 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. 3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a short man he could not, because of the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
Lk 19:5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” 6 So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
Lk 19:7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a ‘sinner.’ ”
Lk 19:8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”
Lk 19:9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.”
And the unemployed:
Well, about the unemployed. Let’s begin with something Paul wrote about not working:
Warning Against Idleness
2Th 3:6 In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is idle and does not live according to the teaching you received from us. 7 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you, 8 nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. 9 We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to make ourselves a model for you to follow. 10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.”
2Th 3:11 We hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy; they are busybodies. 12 Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the bread they eat. 13 And as for you, brothers, never tire of doing what is right.
2Th 3:14 If anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take special note of him. Do not associate with him, in order that he may feel ashamed. 15 Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.
Ouch!
10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.”
Wow. That sounds brutal, doesn’t it?
And yet, maybe it’s not. Maybe this is about the difference between Christians and non-Christians. Or, given that we’re going to go to the Old Testament, those who follow the God of the Bible, and those who don’t.
The origin of work
Is there a reason to think we might be working in Heaven? Actually, there is. It goes back to, well, the beginning. Sort of. Adam and Eve weren’t the first creations of God. Not by a long shot.
However, remember what the Bible said about Adam.
Adam and Eve
Ge 2:4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.
When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens— 5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, 6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground— 7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Ge 2:8 Now the LORD God had planted a Garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Ge 2:10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.) 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
Ge 2:15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
Now, “take care of” is one word in Hebrew;
9068 שָׁמַר (šā·mǎr): v.; ≡ Str 8104; TWOT 2414—1. LN 13.1–13.47 (qal) keep, i.e., cause a state or condition to remain (Job 2:6; Ps 17:4); (qal pass.) be kept, set aside (1Sa 9:24+); (hitp) keep oneself (2Sa 22:24; Ps 18:24[EB 23]+); 2. LN 37.119–37.126 (qal) guard, watch, i.e., limit access and movement of persons or objects in and out of an area, implying protection to or from the object being guarded (Ge 3:24); (qal pass.) be secured (2Sa 23:5; Ecc 5:12[EB 13]+), note: for qal act. ptcp. as noun, see 9070.5; 3. LN 36.12–36.30 (qal) observe, keep, i.e., obey a command with diligence and in detail (Lev 19:30); (hitp) observe for oneself (Mic 6:16+); 4. LN 27.55–27.60 (qal) be careful, beware, pay attention, make sure, watch oneself, guard oneself, i.e., learn or remember information and take care to watch for dangers (Dt 5:32); (nif) be careful (Ex 23:21); 5. LN 35.36–35.46 (qal) care for, tend, keep, attend to, take care of an object, implying concern for the objects cared for (Hos 12:13[EB 12]), note: this can be animals or other objects; (nif) cared for (Hos 12:14[EB 13]); 6. LN 31.82–31.101 (qal) revere, cling to, i.e., have a worshipful trust and reliance on an object of deity, as an extension of carefully guarding or caring for an object (Ps 31:7[EB 6]); (piel) cling to, revere, care for (Jnh 2:9[EB 8]+), note: further study may yield more domains 1
Combine that with work:
6268 עָבַד (ʿā·ḇǎḏ): v.; ≡ Str 5647; TWOT 1553—1. LN 42.7–42.28 (qal) work, labor, do, i.e., expend considerable energy and intensity in a task or function (Ge 2:5; Ex 5:18), note: this is highly generic term for almost any activity; (pual) be worked (Dt 21:3+); (hif) work (Ex 1:13; 2Ch 2:17[EB 18]; Eze 29:18+); 2. LN 35.19–35.30 (qal) serve, be a slave, be indentured, i.e., give considerable energy and intensity to give aid to another, often in a social arrangement of having lower status than free (Lev 25:46; 2Sa 16:19); (pual) be made a slave or indentured servant (Isa 14:3+); (hif) reduce to servitude, enslave (Ex 6:5; Jer 17:4+), note: for a focus on possession and low status, see also domain LN 87.76–87.86; 3. LN 53.53–53.64 (qal) worship, serve, minister, work in ministry, i.e., give energy and devotion to God or a god, including ceremonies (Ex 23:24, 25); (hof) be made to serve (Ex 20:5+); 4. LN 22.21–22.28 (hif) burden, i.e., cause an unfavorable circumstance or hardship to another (Isa 43:23, 24+); 5. LN 43 (qal) cultivate, plow, i.e., work soil (with or without an animal) as part of the agricultural process (Ge 4:2; Isa 30:24); (nif) plowed, be cultivated (Dt 21:4; Ecc 5:8[EB 9]; Eze 36:9, 34+), note: for MT text in Ge 47:21; Isa 23:10; Jer 15:14, see 6296; note: further study may yield more domains; 6. LN 43 unit: אִישׁ עָבַד אֲדָמָה (ʾîš ʿā·ḇǎḏ ʾǎḏā·mā(h)) farmer, formally, man working soil (Zec 13:5+) 2
As you can see, there are a lot of different degrees of “work” involved here. So, using the form of the Hebrew word, and some background from Jewish scholars, here’s how to look at verse 15: The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
In order to do that, we need to back up a second and read a few more verses, for context.
The Beginning
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Ge 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
Ge 1:27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
Ge 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
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What does this mean?
God speaks these two types of word to man as well as to the universe. The creative word becomes a word of blessing, and the defining word a word of boundary.
This blessing is creative because, like God’s utterance, “Let there be light,” it is spoken out of nothing. Man has done nothing to merit a blessing. Rather, God speaks it out of his own purpose and desire. Like the primal word of creation, the primal blessing arises from God’s own purpose, and it produces life. Man receives this creative word of blessing at the outset of his existence, and it becomes part of his ideal spiritual nature, defining his entire relationship with his Creator.
The original blessing includes the command to subdue the earth. Work is part of the blessing. When God places humankind in the Garden, before Adam sins, God gives him the task of working the garden; he must “tend and keep it” (Gen. 2:15). The Hebrew root for tend is avad, from which comes the word avodah, meaning labor, or even bondage. Later in the Torah, this same word also comes to mean worship, as in avodat mishkan, the service or worship in the Tabernacle. Avodah becomes the general term in Hebrew for worship. Perhaps worship and work are not so far apart in the mind of God.
God also tells Adam to “keep” the Garden. The root verb here is shamar, “to guard.” As with avad, this word takes on a spiritual significance; it becomes the word for religious observance. When the Lord tells Israel to keep the Shabbat, he uses the imperative form sh’mor: keep, observe, guard. 3
Notice the part about The Hebrew root for tend is avad, from which comes the word avodah, meaning labor, or even bondage. And yes, as we saw above, that’s absolutely true:
2. LN 35.19–35.30 (qal) serve, be a slave, be indentured, i.e., give considerable energy and intensity to give aid to another, often in a social arrangement of having lower status than free (Lev 25:46; 2Sa 16:19); (pual) be made a slave or indentured servant (Isa 14:3+); (hif) reduce to servitude, enslave (Ex 6:5; Jer 17:4+), note: for a focus on possession and low status, see also domain LN 87.76–87.86;
However, let’s be cognizant about the status of the various “parties” to this command/blessing. First, there’s God, who is the creator and the One issuing the command/blessing. And of course, there’s Adam, representing all of us. Finally, there are the various things God created.
As we know from the context of the Bible overall, that same order I just used to identify the parties is also the order of priority amongst the parties. God is number one. We are told to tend to His garden. Earlier, we were told to “subdue” God’s creation. As such, that puts us number two and God’s creation subservient to us.
All of this was previously made evident in 28, repeated below:
Ge 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
I think we have massive problems with the Hebrew word we read as subdue:
3899 כָּבַשׁ (kā·ḇǎš): v.; ≡ Str 3533; TWOT 951—1. LN 39.52–39.61 (qal) subdue, overcome, enslave, i.e., conquer and control an environment or people (Ge 1:28; 2Ch 28:10; Ne 5:5a; Jer 34:11 Q,16; Zec 9:15+); (nif) be subdued, be subject, be brought under control (Nu 32:22, 29; Jos 18:1; 1Ch 22:18; Ne 5:5b+); (piel) subdue (2Sa 8:11+); (hif) subdue, subjugate (Jer 34:11 K+); 2. LN 88.271–88.282 (qal) molest, formally, subdue, i.e., commit a sexual violation of a female, as an extension of conquering a people or environment (Est 7:8+); 3. LN 40.8–40.13 unit: כָּבַשׁ עָוֹן (kā·ḇǎš ʿā·wōn) remove sin, formally, subdue wrongs, i.e., remove guilt from wrongdoing, implying relationship, as a figurative extension of conquering a people or nation (Mic 7:19+) 4
Given the form of the word, the possible meanings from above are numbers 1 (qal) and 2 (qal). You can see where the issue comes in.
However, as I always say, context matters. Remember, we’re to take care of God’s creation. Do we really believe, even remotely think, God meant for us to enslave or molest His creation? Keeping the order of who’s 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in importance/priority, we should think God meant for us to take care of it in a good fashion, not to destroy it.
To that end, we have:
to till it and tend it The man is not indigenous to the garden. He is fashioned elsewhere and finds himself in it solely by the grace of God. True, his needs are easily taken care of, but his life in the garden is not to be one of indolence. He has duties to perform. It is his responsibility to nurture and conserve the pristine perfection of the garden. This he must do by the labor of his hands. Yet, no strenuous exertion is required, for nature responds easily to his efforts. 5
Isn’t paradise a party place?
We seem to think, at least many people do, that paradise is going to be a full-time never-ending party. I have no idea where that comes from. Instead, if the Garden of Eden was life before the fall, and Jesus’ second coming and our salvation are to bring things back to the way they were meant to be, then the following seems more likely:
15. This verse resumes the subject matter of v. 9, which has been interrupted by the description of the rivers.
to dress it and to keep it] The LORD God puts man into the garden for a life, not of indolence, but of labour. “To dress it,” that is to cultivate the soil, tend and prune the trees: “to keep it,” that is to defend it from depredation by animals, or from the evils arising from unchecked luxuriance. In other words, he is given, from the first, his work to do by which he is (1) to improve his surroundings, (2) to provide for the necessities of life, (3) to protect from waste or loss that which is committed to his care. This work will exact abundant physical effort; it will exercise his powers of observation and judgement; it will furnish him with food for his body, and with thought for his mind.
Notice, that the garden requires to be dressed and kept; it is not a place of spontaneous perfection. Man in the garden is to work, to take trouble, to practise forethought, to exercise solicitude and sympathy for the objects of his toil. “Paradise” is not a place for indolence and self-indulgence. 6
Is that what you expected?
Conclusion – Working in Heaven: Will God Be A Good CEO?
Have you ever had a job/work that you enjoyed? If not, I feel bad for you. I can’t say I’ve enjoyed every minute of every job I’ve had, but I did enjoy a whole lot more of the time than I hated it. I guess that’s why I only had one full-time job and I stayed there for 36 years. It’s also why I retired a few years earlier than planned, when it suddenly became turned into an environment I couldn’t stand.
I think, after everything we’ve read and after my own experience, I’d rather be active than just sitting around doing nothing.
I also have experience closing beer bars at 2 AM when I was in college. But I have to say, it wasn’t the beer that got me in. I really didn’t drink very much. It was the cheap steak I could BBQ myself in the back, the unlimited salad, and especially the shuffleboard table.
Now, I’m retired and spend most of my time doing this – researching and writing what you’re now reading. This is the best thing ever.
The bottom line? I do like feeling as if I accomplish something meaningful. I love to learn, and then to share what I’ve learned.
Do I think we’ll all end up as gardeners? I hope not, for the sake of the things in the garden! Taking care of dogs might be fun. But here’s the thing. We believe the knowledge we have is from God. Clearly we’ve advanced our knowledge beyond what Adam and Eve possessed.
I hope that means God has things more advanced, and to me therefore more interesting than gardening.
We’re not going to be angels. So we won’t be doing the so-called angel thing of singing songs all the time. Even the Bible has angels doing other things, although after Satan is permanently removed, fighting evil won’t be on their list of tasks. Some kind of mental and physical stimulation seems like it will be present, and welcome.
Then we end up with something like this, although maybe/hopefully not caring for a literal garden all the time:
Verse 15. Put him into the garden—to dress it, and to keep it.] Horticulture, or gardening, is the first kind of employment on record, and that in which man was engaged while in a state of perfection and innocence. Though the garden may be supposed to produce all things spontaneously, as the whole vegetable surface of the earth certainly did at the creation, yet dressing and tilling were afterwards necessary to maintain the different kinds of plants and vegetables in their perfection, and to repress luxuriance. Even in a state of innocence we cannot conceive it possible that man could have been happy if inactive. God gave him work to do, and his employment contributed to his happiness; for the structure of his body, as well as of his mind, plainly proves that he was never intended for a merely contemplative life. 7
As Christians, all of this is something we should be aware of. We’re called to do things in this life. And we’re going to be called to do things in the next life. The question is, do we like what we’re doing? Oh – and are we working for an overbearing billionaire who doesn’t care about us, or for God who loves us?
In this life, too many of us end up doing things we don’t like. But if we truly follow Hod in this life, accept His offer of salvation in the next life, then things will be different. We’ll be doing the things we were created to do. That means we’ll be good at them and we’ll enjoy it. It also means we’ll be working for the best possible CEO, because He knows more about us than we do.
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