Salute to Labor

Genesis 3:17 (Gods Word Translation).
Then he said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree, although I commanded you, ‘You must never eat its fruit.’ The ground is cursed because of you. Through hard work you will eat food that comes from it every day of your life.”

Labor Day; a time to reflect upon the sacrifices men and women have made over the years to secure decent wages, benefits, and safe working environments for the working class. My uncle Joe was ninety two when he died but he told me something I have never forgotten: “It’s good to have all these people doing work with computers but Mike; somebody is going to have to dig the potatoes!” I think that is what God had in mind when He said this to Adam, don’t you?

We work to eat now. Some harder than others, some not at all, but someone still has to “till the ground” if we are to get food from it. God is still providing for us only now, we have to play a part in it! Someone once said, “I dig the ditch to get the money to buy the bread to get the energy to dig the ditch.” Each of us has a different “ditch” but all of us need the bread. So when we put food in our mouth today let us not forget those who made it possible nor the God who continues to provide it.