Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work

by Timothy J. Keller

“The earthly paradise . . . is a model of parental care. The fledgling is sheltered but not smothered: on all sides discoveries and encounters await him to draw out his powers of discernment and choice, and there is ample nourishment for his aesthetic, physical and spiritual appetites; further, there is a man’s work before him for body and mind (v. 15, 19).” 49 For our spiritual growth there was a divine Word to obey (verses 16–17). For our cultural and creative development there was the physical work of the tending of the garden (verse 15) and the mental stretching and understanding involved in the naming of the animals (verse 19). Finally, in the creation of Eve and of marriage, there was the provision for growing the human race into a full society (verses 19–24).

Breakdown of each component of humanity. Phsical, mental etc...