#348.4 – “Weed-Picking 101”

“And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.” - Genesis 2:15
Our four kids have hardly scratched the surface of work in their lives, and I decided the other night that they needed to have a lesson in work. So I told them all that the next day we would all do a little weed-pulling. I wanted them to have just a taste of what real work is like.
The next morning, the boys were up first… so I gave a bag in which to put weeds and told them to get started. I showed them how to pull and get the whole weed up – roots and all. I then went over to another part of the yard and began pulling some of my own. After I got one sackful, I came over to check on them. They had hardly picked a thing. I gave them a good talking to, and told them to get to work. I went back across the yard to my spot and started working some more. I could hear them taking to each other; in fact, they weren’t doing much of anything except talking. I yelled across the yard and told them to get busy, and finally did. By the time I had picked a second sackful, they had finished their only sack (and they still missed a few spots, but I was okay with that, because the girls needed something to do).
Later, the girls got out there and finished weeding that section, and then started to work on the other areas neither the boys nor I had done. In the meantime, I was weed-eating the back ditch. I didn’t watch the girls do their work, but I know they came up with another sackful of weeds on their own.
Work is a good thing. When the work itself is pleasing to God, and the heart of the Christian worker is centered on serving the Lord in their work, that work honors God as an act of worship.
May we honor God in our work today.

Daniel