What is in our understanding of the work? I mean here is not work at all as such, but that "work" on which we walk every day. From this perspective, it does not matter even relation to the means of production, who is the man in relation to work - an employee, sole proprietor or a co-owner large and medium-sized businesses. Here we are on the attitude to work as an activity, as a social activity. And also talk about what kind of work takes place in the heart and soul of man.
known saying "We are working to live, not live to work." This saying is on the home and folksy language accurately reflects the word of the Lord God, spoken by Adam in exile from paradise: "in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life: thorns and thistles it forth unto thee and thou shalt eat herb of the field and in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground from which you were taken "(Genesis 3:17-19). God has clearly shown that the main thing that since the fall of Adam is the essence of human civilization - for subsistence needs work. Need to work to eat. Better known proverb "Who does not work - do not eat." She sometimes izvraschetsya in favor of the speaker, explaining the specific, advantageous only to him at the moment, the situation. But in its essence it is true.
Next Book of Genesis tells us that "the LORD God made Adam and his wife coats of skins and clothed them" (Gen. 3:21). In other words, Adam and Eve were not so imagine that such a job, so they were, to put it in modern terms, "ideal consumer" that could not even make clothes for themselves and dress themselves! Their skill was only enough for it to disrupt his fig leaves together and tie them in the form of belts (Genesis 3:7).
After the expulsion of man from Paradise was the need to work constant, the outcome depended on the existence of labor rights. Appeared the first division of labor (Abel - herder, Cain - farmer), the first "competition market "(Genesis 4:3-8), when the failure handiwork worker served as a pretext to the physical elimination of a competitor. to eliminate from envy, to eliminate the more successful.
As we can see at the beginning of the XXI century morals and ethics of other workers' well tolerated and even in practice, implement the same relation to competitors as Cain. That just shows you - despite all the achievements of civilization, man is the same. The same internally, in his heart. And vices of mankind are the same as at the time of Adam, Cain, Ham. Internally, we have not changed. And no purely mental work, no electricity and sewerage, no Lexi aypedy and did not make us different.
grew up and died hundreds of generations of people for whom the work was something natural, permanent, organic part of their existence. Division of labor occurs constantly, specialization have become more narrow. With the multiplication of mankind, with the accumulation of material benefits he has appeared sphere of human activity, not directly aimed at meeting the physiological needs of man - a culture arts, entertainment. There were things for which people are willing to pay the money, although these items are not necessary for their physical existence. IPhone does not saturate the physical hunger, the picture does not quench the thirst of the physical. IPhone quench gadget addiction, painting - an aesthetic hunger.
Over time job was for the people something so mentally and socially indispensable, that is gradually occupy a dominant place in the soul of many people. You've heard the saying: "To the woman on the first family, for men - work? The concept of "self-actualization" - it stands for the fullest possible disclosure of their talents and inclinations in favorites fact, in his work. In itself, promise not bad - you need to qualitatively carry out their work. However, when the work overshadows everything else when it gets above the family values \u200b\u200band relationship with God - it becomes an idol. Idol nasty. And the man that worships the idol, has its time, their health is a pagan sacrifice on the altar.
20 years ago read the memoirs of Lee Iacocca (President Ford, "father" of the Mustang, then president of Chrysler, "father" Jeep Cherokee), where he tells about a conversation with a senior manager. Top manager said he gives himself to work so that a few years was not on vacation. Iacocca replied that this indicates an inability to allocate time and the wrong priorities in life.
I never impose my views. But if you work in humans as in the first place in the life of that family time is not enough - it waits for severe disappointment in the future. And rethinking lived life without the possibility that either the fix.
This is not a hypothesis - in addition to the literature and described in Internet cases, personally know several people age 70-80 years old, workaholic, whose successes in their work were generally accepted around. And here they are now - is lonely and unhappy. Their adult children and grandchildren for them to strangers - in fact they never had time for them. These people came home late, toppled down on the bed and early to rise once again to escape and bring his time in zhervtu his idol. And now, when they were already a few years do not work, have all lost interest in them.
And this situation is logical: if a person is not improved in life in anything other than work, if it has no other interests - and then for others it is of interest primarily as an expert in their field. And in any other capacity. Therefore, as soon as it leaves the sphere of his profession - he disappears from society. And get used to be respected by all the pros - highly experienced and complex at the situation. The result is often a mental deterioration, when a man 5 years ago are multiplied in the mind of double digits, not in a position to calculate the number of kilowatts of electricity consumed by them for a month.
Even worse, when the attitude to work just manic. When on the fifth day of vacation in humans begins the "breaking", he wants to work. And if he is on vacation during these 5 days no one else and did not call from work - "breaking" growing sense of anxiety from lack of demand. Any maniac - a sign of a sick mind. A person can devote all my strength, all his mental energy work or hobbies. Reaches in this large success. But for the benefit of it to him in the face of eternity? As an extreme example, mention maniac Chikatilo: the fifth top ten of his victims, he has already achieved skill in killing people.
Therefore, it seems reasonable for a simple guide to the work of the Gospel commandment: "And all that do, do it heartily, as unto the Lord, and not to men "(Colossians 3:23). It is necessary to do their job conscientiously, diligently, from the soul. But in any case not allowed that the work took a shower and a place in the heart of God.
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