\u201cGo to your corners!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It seems daily, amidst this pandemic, those words are increasingly applicable to social media fisticuffs, as tensions run high about how and when to return to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As believers we look to Scripture and the Lord for guidance. Today, as I was reading, I ran across two separate articles, that, together, provide a good perspective on what we CAN and CAN NOT know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, what we cannot know.\u00a0 Below is a portion of a great article by Bryan Schneider on Covid 19 & Biblical Balance<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We cannot pit life against livelihood. We cannot say, \u201cIf you care about life you don’t care about livelihood.\u201d Nor can one say, \u201cIf you care about livelihood you must not care about life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Christians must hold both of these together in Biblical balance. Without livelihood one cannot live life. Without preserving life one robs another of their livelihood. We must hold these two in balance.<\/em><\/p>\n There is most likely no cut-and-dry answer. It is unwise for us to demand a cookie-cutter solution to our present situation. We need to ask God for wisdom.<\/em><\/p>\n We need to plead with God to show us how to live in a way that prioritizes both life and livelihood. It is imperative that we keep these two Biblical principles in balance.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Now, for what we can know. J.C. Ryle reminds us in The Duties of Parents<\/em> that we were made for work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No created being was ever meant to be idle. Service and work is the appointed portion of every creature of God. The angels in heaven work,\u2014they are the Lord\u2019s ministering servants, ever doing His will. Adam, in Paradise, had work,\u2014he was appointed to dress the garden of Eden, and to keep it. The redeemed saints in glory will have work, \u201cThey rest not day and night singing praise and glory to Him who bought them.\u201d And man, weak, sinful man, must have something to do, or else his soul will soon get into an unhealthy state. We must have our hands filled, and our minds occupied with something, or else our imaginations will soon ferment and breed mischief.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n So\u2026even as we pray and debate about the practical when<\/em><\/strong> to return to work, we know the biblical why<\/em><\/strong> we must.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cGo to your corners!\u201d It seems daily, amidst this pandemic, those words are increasingly applicable to social media fisticuffs, as tensions run high about how and when to return to work. As believers we look to Scripture and the Lord for guidance. Today, as I was reading, I ran across two separate articles, that, together, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-living"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/blog-corners-600x300.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/blog-corners-600x300.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Kent Husted","author_link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/author\/khusted\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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