Between Love, Work and a Sustainable Earth

Work is not to be hated. It might have been cursed by the Adamic fault but it has been redeemed, and through the victory of Christ, work has become love. Work and love are verbs, they are, and must be action words. Every work, professionalism and career point to this ultimate aim: love. We should love what we do, but we must not be discouraged if we don’t. This love is also independent of feelings. It matters little whether we like what we do or not as long as we realise that work is love and love is an action word. 

 

This is why the purest miracle is that which is realised amidst the struggles of life. Progress entails being passionate and committed to labour, and especially in the work which entails the responsibility for the earth and making it habitable for posterity. The passion for environmental sustainability borders on a Divine mandate which ultimately is the path towards salvation. Commitment to nature has roots in the supernatural. 

 

Even though we are often consoled by the divine and miracles, the ultimate victory comes from work, because God was made flesh, and He worked. God loves the world. He prefers the path of naturalness which leads to authentic growth, especially when it unleashes all our energy, humanness and creativity for the glory of God and the wellbeing of man.

 

The source of all naturalness is the Divine. Heaven and earth once operated in essence before its severance by sin, but this has been reconciled back into its essential unity through the work of Christ on Calvary, and it is just a question of time before everyone realises this as a fact.