$GRIND ⚙️

Wrong. All labor performed with presence, care and excellence is devotional— Laborare est Orare, to work is to pray. Martin Luther: “The maid who sweeps her kitchen is doing the will of God just as much as the monk who prays—not because she may sing a Christian hymn as she sweeps but because God loves clean floors. The Christian shoemaker does his Christian duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.” The Christian world always knew work is worship, inclusive of labor that had nothing to do with the church, and connected diligence to wealth gain positively as just dues. It was specifically considered profane when you work purely for money, money is your master, with no pride or care in your work—the current reddit consumeroid norm, “work to live, not live to work”, you’re a sucker if you have pride in your profession—just as they knew those who do not provide for themselves are sinners (“worse than an unbeliever” 1 Timothy 5:8)—again, the new norm is you’re clever if you figure out how to parasite off institutions—worse than an unbeliever. You can invent any excuses and exceptions to justify it, as all sinners will, but you’re only punishing yourself. We live in an age of abundance, the NEET must go forth and do proud work, of any kind, not for money but for devotion, work will set you free, while idleness in parasitism will leave you destitute and idleness in luxury will have you only fattened for the slaughter (James 5:5).

are u grinding son?