Manual Training
Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/qiTLYQM46AI?list=PLiM0aTPbImBlZf_6rS4av5bi_mPgARziM
All things in nature do their allotted work. Action pervades the whole creation, and in order to fulfill our mission we, too, must be active.
At the creation, labor was appointed as a blessing. It meant development, power, happiness. The changed condition of the earth through the curse of sin has brought a change in the conditions of labor; yet though now attended with anxiety, weariness, and pain, it is still a source of happiness and development. And it is a safeguard against temptation. Its discipline places a check on self-indulgence, and promotes industry, purity, and firmness. Thus it becomes a part of God's great plan for our recovery from the Fall.
Idleness fosters self-indulgence, and the result is a life empty and barren--a field inviting the growth of every evil.
The earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: but that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. Hebrews 6:7, 8
