I'm your name's Father Mike Schmitz and this is a Sinsha Presents.

So since I live in work on a college campus, a lot of times I'm talking with young people

who are trying to figure out, okay, what's the work, the work I'm going to do for the rest

of my life?

What's the job I'm going to have for the rest of my life?

Because I want to make sure that you, the exact right job that kind of like, you know,

is meaningful and fulfills me.

And I get that, I, like, I totally understand, like the desire for that and I totally understand

the longing for like, I don't want to waste my life at a job that doesn't mean anything.

But in order to approach this, the right way, I think we have to go back to the beginning

and say, what is, ask the question, what is God's plan for work?

Because a lot of times we can see work as being one of those things that either is to be

avoided at all costs or it's the thing that like is going to, like, give me meaning, is

going to give me fulfillment.

So what's God's plan for work?

If we go back to the book of Genesis, we recognize the first offer, right off the bat, that

God himself is a worker, that God himself is a laborer, that God creates.

Now in other cultures, other religions, they would say, no, no, no, God doesn't do that.

That's beneath God.

But in Scripture, God creates, He reveals that He is a worker.

And then He makes man and woman in His own image and likeness.

When God places Adam in the garden, He puts him in the garden to go to work.

...