Everyone should have a job they hate at least once so that they'll appreciate the job that they really love.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

That line from a retired nurse is appropriate as America goes through what's called the Great Resignation,

partly due to a bad understanding of work.

On one hand, are workaholics that are enslaved to their jobs because it's their source of meaning and identity.

On the other hand, there are the perpetual adolescence of our world, unwilling to commit to serious labor and hoping the perfect job just falls in their laps.

Well, ironically, both of these attitudes come from the same fundamentally wrong idea.

That work is what life is ultimately all about.

A Christian view of work is better.

Work isn't something we worship.

It's a way that we worship our creator. It's a way we give to the world, not just take from it.

And seeing work as worship can redeem even the most menial, thankless, or toilsome job.

Like the Apostle Paul wrote to the Colossians, whatever you find to do, do it with all your heart.

It's working for the

Lord, not for human masters. I'm John Stone Street.