Our pastor asked me to preach yesterday, and I opened the way I usually do on Labor Day, talking about the importance of work. I told them:

• You serve God by your work. Your work is a continuation of God’s work in the world.
• You serve people at your work: your clients and co-workers
• If you do #1 and #2 well, you can advance the Kingdom from your work.

Then I flipped the script. Stay tuned.

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. (Genesis 2.1 – 3, ESV)

Six days you shall labor, and do all your work… (Exodus 20.9, ESV. Also Exodus 23.12, 31.15, 34.21, 35.2, Leviticus 23.3, Deuteronomy 5.13)