Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.
your work is a core part of your humanness. You are made in the image of a working God. God is king over the world, and you’re a king, a queen — royalty — ruling on his behalf. Gathering up the creation’s praise and somehow pushing it back to God himself.
John Mark Comer • Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.
When you get up tomorrow morning and go to your job or school or whatever it is you do with your life, you’re not just earning money to pay the bills or learning microbiology or raising kids or serving at your local church or nonprofit. You’re being human. You’re ruling over the earth.
John Mark Comer • Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.
We are the Creator’s representatives to his creation.
John Mark Comer • Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.
You were made to do good— to mirror and mimic what God is like to the world. To stand at the interface between the Creator and his creation, implementing
John Mark Comer • Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.
what we do should grow out of who we are.
John Mark Comer • Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.
we need to think of work as a good thing. When God was done working, he sat back and said, This is really good. That’s how we should view our work. So many people think of
John Mark Comer • Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.
Handel’s Messiah,