Free to Work and Free from Work
I’m preaching on work from Genesis 2 this Sunday. For the past year I’ve found myself thinking about this statement from Charles Drew about work. I don’t think the quote is going to make it in the sermon, so I thought I’d post it here.
People who understand that their creativity is a gift of God, rather than putting it in the place of God himself, discover a paradoxical freedom. They are both free to work and free from work. Motivated by love and gratitude (powerful motivators) they are free to work very hard, giving their best back to God. At the same time, because they know neither they nor their work is God, they are free from the burden of taking themselves or their work too seriously—as if their giftedness mandated perfection.
