To Lounge or to Labor

“I’m working for the weekend.” “Life’s a beach.” TGIF—Thank Goodness It’s Friday.   These and many other messages promote the idea that work is drudgery, only a necessity, and that real living is a vacation, relaxation, and lounging.  Our society overemphasizes lounging and minimizes man’s need for labor.  But God created man to labor and to lounge only in moderation.  He created man with a nature that needs labor.  God said, “Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl...