God Sees that His Work Is Good (Genesis 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31)
Against any dualistic notion that heaven is good while earth is bad, Genesis declares on each day of creation that “God saw that it was good” (Gen. 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25). On the sixth day, with the creation of humanity, God saw that it was “very good” (Gen. 1:31). People—the agents through whom sin is soon to enter God’s creation—are nonetheless “very good.” There is simply no support in Genesis for the notion, which somehow entered Christian imagination, that the world is irredeemably evil and the only salvation is an escape into an immaterial spiritual world, much less for the notion that while we are on earth we should spend our time in “spiritual” tasks rather than “material” ones. There is no divorce of the spiritual from the material in God’s good world.
God’s Good Idea: Work (Devotional)
DevotionalWork was God's idea from the beginning. God commissions people to participate in his work.
God’s Good Idea: Work (Devotional)
DevotionalWork was God's idea from the beginning. God commissions people to participate in his work.
