First, we had COVID and risks to our health, and now we have AI, Artificial Intelligence, that might do our jobs for us. COVID also gave us remote working, from home, and now people are being told to come back to the office or risk being fired.

I know someone who got tired of living under the constant threat of losing her job, so she quit and took an extended vacation in Thailand. I don’t think that ended well, but I think she is back home now, struggling to stay employed, in the same old way.

I hope she is OK.

If you want to follow the experts, some people are concerned about our jobs:

• READ: Job Quality: OECD

For almost everyone I know under the age of thirty, employment, and unemployment seem to be the biggest risks and threats in their lives. It’s like a quiet epidemic.

The pressure is growing on us because everything is so expensive now, and we pay for those expensive things, with money that we earn. I can show you several houses near me that are valued at almost a million dollars. A few years ago, that was unknown.

And now vehicles and groceries cost so much more. I like to joke about expensive cars and cheap houses in small towns far from the city “That car cost as much as a house in [something]ville.”

Not everyone laughs.

I am writing as a Christian, and I think we have been lied to. There is a word in the Bible, “Joy,” and that seems to be missing in so many people that I know, especially young adults.

This is becoming an important spiritual topic among young Christians:

So, is there a spiritual remedy for unemployment?

Yes, but the change has to be in us. The world around us might continue to be an unfriendly place.

I have found one answer to the problem of job and employment stress, and it is in the Bible. Brace yourself; Don’t work for your boss. Don’t try to please that person or that committee.

That still sounds strange to me, but it is clear in the Bible:

“Obey with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord and not people, because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this will be rewarded by the Lord.” (Ephesians 6: 7 and 8)

The point is, you have a boss much higher up than your supervisor. Work for that one.

The result is a diligent worker who gets the job done, even when the boss is away. We know, that boss in Heaven never goes away.

When my father was alive, he gave me some advice. Be the best worker you can be, and when you lose that job, someone else will hire you. He lived through very stressful times, and that always worked for him.

I think we need to relearn how to fix the economy, one worker at a time. Imagine the time when an employee was a slave:

“Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ, not like those who do their work only when someone is watching as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart.” (Ephesians 6: 5 and 6)