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Cultivating God’s World Bible in a Year: Psalms 43–45 Acts 27:27–44 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. Genesis 2: Today's Scripture & Insight: Genesis 1:26–27; 2: “Dad, why do you have go work?” The question from my young was motivated by her desire with . I would have preferred skip work and spend time with her, but there was a growing list of things at work that required my attention. The question, nevertheless, is a good one. Why do we work? Is it simply provide for ourselves and for the people we love? What about labor that’s unpaid—why do we do that? Genesis 2 tells us that God placed the first human in the garden “work it and take care of it” (v. ). My father-in-law is a farmer, and he often tells me he farms for the sheer love of land and livestock. That’s beautiful, but it leaves lingering questions for those who don’t love their work. Why did God put us in a particular place with a particular assignment? Genesis 1 gives us the answer. We’re made in God’s image to carefully steward the world He made (v. 26). Pagan stories of the way the world began reveal “gods” making humans to be their slaves. Genesis declares that the one true God made humans to be His representatives—to steward what He’d made on His behalf. May we reflect His wise and loving order into the world. Work is a call to cultivate God’s world for His glory. Reflect & Pray What’s the work God has given you to do? How could you cultivate this “field” by bringing order into it and bringing good from it, by His grace? Dear God, thank You for the honor of joining You in Your work in the world. Help me to reflect Your love, wisdom, and order in my life and in the place where I work. 
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For one thing, I believe when we work for what we have, we appreciate it. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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