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Finding Pleasure and Gratitude in Our Daily Work
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It’s amazing, it’s good, it’s appropriate when someone is able to work, when someone is able to labour, and then to receive the fruits of that labour to be able to eat and drink, to find pleasure, actually to find pleasure in work.
And however amazing or modest the provisions are that we have that enable us to eat and drink, we can be thankful as we eat and drink to God that he’s sustaining us.
All that said, I think the writer of Ecclesiastes here is looking for something better than the mundane, is looking for that which feels to us to be a blessing. We mustn’t have unrealistic expectations of what we will get out of this life in a fallen world. Nevertheless, it is good and fitting for us to eat and drink and find enjoyment in our work.
