Day 183 – Work to Live not Live to Work.
Today’s Reading: Proverbs 22 – 24
Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house. Proverbs 24:27
I’ve heard the word workaholic a lot in my life. I can’t help it, I love to work. I honestly feel at my best when I’m physically working my hands and mind. But after a long days work, I love to sit and relax; after a long season, I love to jump in a car or hop on plane to travel the world and experience all of God’s creation. I may love to work, but at the end of my work I love to live.
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living. As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.
2 Thessalonians 3:10-13
The sluggard, the sloth, the person who works to attain something and then gives up working, this person has lost their way.
I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Proverbs 24:30-31
God wants us to work because he gives each of us a purpose; he wants us to tend to the land, putting our hand to the plow. But God also wants us to LIVE, to rest, to enjoy the work of our hands, the fruit of our harvest. When. We are just working to attain something and then give up, that which we attained comes to waste. However, if we work to live, we work to provide for life. We work, we rest, we work, we play, we work, we live, until God says our work here is done and we’ve been faithful to fulfill the work He’s given us.
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ Matthew 25:21
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