And in that place there lived perfect animals, plants and people. But many people today would not have enjoyed it for long at all, maybe not at all. You see, even in this perfect place, these perfect people had to do some things that some folks today do not include in a perfect picture. And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Some would have us conclude that work is part of the curse.
Work is part of the blessing.
What a privilege to have a responsibility to meet and a task to accomplish. Work is a vital part of life. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. Just as labor isn't part of the curse, neither is obedience. They are both blessings bestowed on mankind by a loving, wise, generous Creator.