Kingdom Business — a door standing open at midday, people coming toward it

Co-workers in creationGenesis 2:4-17Length: Standard

Eat

Read the passage slowly, read it again, then retell it in your own words. If you can't retell it, read it once more.

  • Read
  • Reread
  • Retell

Digest

Answer from what the passage actually says — stay in the text.

  1. What does this passage show me about God?

    • What job does God give the man, and what does he give him to do it with?
  2. What does it show me about people — and about myself?

    • Do you think of your work as a calling, a burden, or just an income?
  3. What will I obey this week? (a concrete step, with a day)

    • What part of your work will you do this week as something entrusted to you rather than endured?
  4. Who will I tell?

    • Who treats their work as meaningless who could hear this?

Grow

Growth is God's part, not yours. Do the cycle faithfully and trust Him to give the growth (1 Corinthians 3:6–7).

Pray

Father, you put a person in the garden to work it and keep it before anything went wrong. Thank you that our work is your idea, not our punishment.