All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 14:23
One thing I have learned, in love, life, work, play, in everything, hard work always brings a reward, so never give up.
Never stop trying, never stop learning, never stop giving YOUR ALL because God is working something in you to do a mighty work wherever you are. And if you stop, if you give up, you will start dying, for not doing is dying.
There will be people, there will be leaders, even worse spiritual forces of evil that will try to make you feel worthless, powerless, exhausted, so minuscule in the scheme of things, but even the smallest things have more than enough power to overcome.
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
Proverbs 6:6-8
Just coasting through, allowing someone to work for you to live, giving up, all these things lead to a lazy life, a life with no purpose and no plan and a feeling of defeat. One day you will wake up and wonder where all your life went and why you’re even here. But God, he purposed you to work hard.
The diligent find freedom in their work; the lazy are oppressed by work.
Proverbs 12:24 MSG
Working hard at all things you are given to do will bring you joy.
Growing up on the farm my dad gave me one of the greatest gifts, a few rows to grow onions. We planted them, we watched them grow. At harvest time we had to wake up in the earliest hours before the sun came up in the cold and heat to pull them, wash them, bundle them up and take them to market. I smelled for days, my nail beds and skin could never get clean, my feet were cracked and filled with dirt (no I didn’t wear shoes), my clothes were ripped, stained, and smelled to hog Heaven, I was a MESS….But then I got paid. The pay for a young child was good, but what was better was the little bit I bought for myself and the tons of gifts I was able to buy with my own money for others. It was the greatest lesson of hard works reward, and not just a reward for me but how I was able to give to others as well. And that was just a catapult into my life.
I used the lesson of work that my dad gave to me in all my life, not just work. When I didn’t make the cheerleading team the first year I tried out, I worked hard for over a year, went to every game to watch the other cheerleaders, physically, mentally prepared for tryouts the next year and not only did I make the team but I became a captain. When I couldn’t test well for my SATs, and I had my mind set on a school and scholarship, I went to class after class, I read books, I did whatever it took to get the score that I needed to get into the school I desired and the scholarship that provided for all of my education. When in the honeymoon year of my marriage, I didn’t think it was going to work, I felt like giving up, I turned the give up into a get up and work at it. I turned to God, I read scripture on marriage and wives, I read books on respect and love, and my marriage transformed, and my love for God grew even more.
I’ve utilized hard work in all aspects, because it may sound easier to give up when someone or something is letting you down, when life gets to hard, when you failed, when you get put down, but it’s not. It’s in the hard work that God is going to reward you with something even better. God gave us work (6 days to be exact) and rest (1 day is enough). He called us to work for Him, for Life, and that is what I for you. I want you to experience the reward of the work at whatever you do. Whatever it be, in whatever facet of life, love, work, play, in all things, work with all your heart and allow God to fill you with all you need and give you your hearts desires.
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.” Colossians 3:23-24
Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:58
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