Work is the task or duty that is one's accustomed means of livelihood. It is a good thing to wine, dine, and be satisfied with the result of the work of your hand because it is the hand of God upon you (Ecclesiastes 2:24).
The implication of the above explanation shows that there is no food for the lazy. No work= No food. We live in a world where we want everything to appear the way we picture it without doing anything. We want magical things that require no work, forgetting that those things can't last. They are ephemeral.
Only the work of our hands can be blessed. God can't bless emptiness. It's like multiplying a huge set of numbers with zero, the result will always be zero. Our Almighty God who is the FATHER of all work. Genesis chapter 1 reveals the great and mighty works of creation that the Lord did. When the creator work, why won't the creation work too.
When the Lord created all things, the only creation he gave a job was MAN. Even after the fall, he still gave him work - to till the ground. Man must work either in EDEN (His presence) or out of the Eden( without God). But we must be sure that anything done without God in vain.
Some people in the church believe that God is magical. They'll say "I have faith". Let me gist you, faith without work is dead(James 2:14-26). Do you think things just happen? Go ask that we are making it with the help of God.
You can keep applying principles with nothing, faith with nothing, the endpoint of all is nothing. Get something doing. We can't have lazy and jobless people in the body of Christ and expect the gospel to spread.
We all have to be successful in the field we are, to show forth God's glory in what we do. Others might be poor doing it, but when the Lord gives you special wisdom on how to go about it, you will be amazed at what will come out of it.
People like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, David, Daniel, Peter, Paul, and so on didn't do any special thing, but the hand of God upon them made them men that did exploit in their time because they knew that the Lord was with them.
God is omnipresent - always everywhere we go. We must understand that he's also ever the same ( Hebrews 13:8). We must trust in Him and do your part and the lord will greatly multiply our little efforts in Jesus' name. Amen. SHALOM!
Learning isn't limited to a gathering of people with a tutor, but an experience that leaves a mark of influence. To learn means to gain knowledge or skill by studying, practicing, being taught or experiencing something. A lesson is a section where something is being taught and learned. It, therefore, means that there must be a teacher and a student. Life is a teacher. It teaches anyone who cares to listen and have wisdom. We are in the habit of running each day the same way and the days turn to weeks, weeks to months and later to years. We forget to pause, pay attention to life and absorb wisdom to live. Some of us have experienced but haven't gotten the lessons out of some. Wisdom is not measured by age or level of exposure or experience, but lessons got from our encounter with life. What did you learn as a child, teenager, adult, parent, businessperson, lawyer, pastor, teacher, etc? Whatever you do isn't as important as what are you learning? What will you pa...
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