God told Adam in the garden to be fruitful and multiply. He also said take dominion over the earth; these are the creation mandates. Of course, this was before the curse of sin, so it confirms God’s original design. Productive work was no doubt part of paradise. God put Adam into the garden to be a co-creator. He was to take raw materials of soil and seed to develop them for other humans and future generations.
One can infer from the bible that God created the earth in an imperfect state so we could co-labor with Him to cultivate it and make it fruitful. Today see this in many examples; contractors take raw materials of sand and cement and use them to create buildings that bring glory to God and serve man, artists take color and music and arrange them into art, lawyers take the principles of justice and codify them into laws that benefit society. Entrepreneurs take good ideas and use them to create products and services that make life better for everyone.
We are supposed to take the potential of the earth and increase and multiple the value of it. As stewards of everything and owners of nothing, we are borrow it all from God while we are on earth. And we should exercise our stewardship with care, precision, and obedience in sync with the biblical principles of dominion and multiplication.
God, being the creator, acted as an entrepreneur when He created the fertile earth for multiplication and dominion. All entrepreneurs should follow His lead when fulfilling their role as God’s co-creators. As an entrepreneur, I feel His divine pleasure when I create things because His spirit is at work in me!