Senator Bernie Sanders recently proposed to change the workweek from 40 hours a week to 32 hours. In this series, we’re exploring biblical considerations pertinent to this issue.
Our first consideration is defining work. The Oxford Dictionary defines work as “activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.”
The Hebrew word for work, however, is Avodah, which interestingly means “work, worship, or service.” God viewed work not only as an act of service, but also an act of worship.
Colossians 3:23 teaches, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.”
Rather than dreading work, I believe God desires us to view our work as co-laboring with Him in a form of worship.
