Ugly Four-letter Words

I don’t know how many ugly four-letter words you know, but I am convinced one, which which you are probably familiar, has become one of the ugliest words in our society.

While many do it all the time, others, and their numbers seem to be growing exponentially, avoid it at all cost. . .and the cost is great.

The ugly word I am writing about is “work.” Many people (more all the time) are either shirking, avoiding, or refusing to participate. The Scripture is clear that work is a part of God’s design for all mankind, and everyone who is physically able should be about it on a regular basis.

God is a worker. Look around. His work is easy to see and know. He put this Universe together, sustains it, controls every action and reaction, every contingency, every variable, every outcome, and does so consistently and continuously. Mankind is to imitate that behavior.

When God created man he gave him a job. Man fundamentally changed the work by means of the “curse” (sin),  and work became taxing rather than joyous, difficult rather than spontaneous, and much of mankind over the course of history has chosen to abandon the task in favor of becoming a deadbeat parasite on society, or slowly starving to death.

Work, for those who are able bodied, is a moral imperative. Without it, entropy rules.

The Apostle Paul made it clear that sluggards and shirkers who chose not to work because the effort is beneath them, are not to eat either. That is not to say that there are those in society who require assistance, rather, such assistance should come at the production of many, never the few, thereby providing well for the needy.

When the freeloaders exceed the workers (and we draw near that point), collapse is imminent.