As soon as I get this item posted, I’ll be scouting the Internet for potential jobs. From what I read I won’t be alone.

It’s odd; for years we’ve routinely interacted with customer service people, repair people, and other gainfully employed people — the people who make life tick for us at the gas station, the bank, the laundry — and thought nothing of it. Now I wonder if other unemployed people who transact their business with these same employees have the same thought I do: “He has a job. She has a job.”

The past couple of weeks, I’ve been pondering, “How does God look at work?” What does the Bible say about work — not just the verses that tell us about working hard, or using work to provide for our families, but what’s God’s big plan for work? He made it; He must have a plan for it.

The outcome is this paper on the Theology of Work. Also, here’s a List of Verses the paper cites. It helped me. Maybe it will answer some questions for you, as well.

Included:

I. What is God telling us about Himself through “work?”
II. How can we reflect God’s creative/redemptive work in our own work?
III. How does God use our work in daily life?
IV. What does the Bible tell us about how God views man’s daily work?
V. FAQ
- Is “work” (daily work in the marketplace) real ministry?
- Is household work part of the equation?
- What about work for women?
- How do I respond to ungodly employers? Employees?
- Must work be physical – of our hands – to be real work?
- What role do trade unions have?
- What if I cannot find work?