Prior to the industrial revolution, we were an agrarian society. We worked our fields, grew our crops, and raised our families to work together for our sustenance. Progress "improved" our situation. Men were led to the cities to provide labor for the factories and were paid a wage on which they could survive... provided they could work another day for another dollar. Progress continued and we moved from a production economy to a service economy where cognitive work was deemed of higher value. We are in transition once again and while we still labor on assembly lines, and provide services, we are entering a new dimension where cognition and creativity together will define work more than ever. So how does work today reflect the work of the agrarian age in which the Bible was written? What would Paul say to us today using this same verse?
Readings: Jeremiah 16:16-18:23; 1 Thessalonians 4:1-5:3; Psalm 81:1-16; Proverbs 25:6-7a
