Work, It's What Is For Breakfast

Proverbs 10:4-5, among the many jewels of wisdom found in Proverbs, is explicit in the remedy for poverty: Work.

God qualifies what work is in the NT. Colossians 3:23 says anything my hands find to do. 

Furthermore, work is worship to God and it is what God does, that is, he works. John 5:17 tells us what God is doing in perpetuity.

 "There can be no joy in living without joy in work." - Thomas Aquinas

 "Work is the refuge of those who have nothing better to do" - Oscar Wilde

The ancient, biblical truth is work is a form of imitation of God, an activity which brings healing to the soul and acts as an avenue of worship to God(1). 

In the Hebrew text, work can mean both to worship or to labor. They are tied together and we shouldn't separate them so as to lose our sense of purpose and value, found only in Him and through the life he gives us.

Thank The Lord for your work, no matter the chore or vocation, and give it to Him in worship.

1) CBN Blog, 1/28/11, Dr Corne Bekker, "Work As Worship"