WORK WORK WORK

 

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

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If I pray hard enough, God will supply my needs and bless me…. uhm not so fast skippy! 

 

I don’t have to be smart, intelligent or educated to be successful, I just have to be willing to think hard and work hard… and working hard is THE HARD PART! Garth Heckman

 

My boys growing up used to bring kids into the house and they would say “tell-em Dad, tell them how strong you are… they don’t think you can bench, or squat or deadlift…

And I would tell the kids and they would be impressed… (hey its not to hard to impress a kid) 

But No one has ever bragged on me as someone who is super smart…

My boys never ran into the house and said tell them Dad, tell them just how smart you are…. 

 

Typically very few of us will have have the opportunity to out wit someone, To be smarter or more intelligent… but we have many opportunities to outwork them! 

 

We sometimes fall into this fallacy as followers Christ that if we pray hard and trust him he will bless us… no work necessary.

 

Maybe you heard the joke about the young girl who comes home from Bible college for the summer… this is the boy I am going to marry…

After dinner the father takes the boy into his office and says… 

So what do you do for work… oh I don’t have a job… I trust God

Well where will you live when you marry my daughter… Oh I will just trust God

Well what will you do for food so my daughter can eat… I will just pray and trust God.

The husband later that night is in bed with his wife and she asks him what do you think of our daughters boyfriend. The husband says… well good news and bad news. She asks him what is the bad news…Well he has no job, no house and no money for food…The wife nervously asks…well what is the good news. He thinks Im God. 

 

Wether you want to believe it or not the Bible has a lot to say about work! 

 

Col. 3:23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

 

Prov. 13: 4 The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

 

Prov. 14:23 In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

 

2 Thess. 3:10-12 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.

 

Prov. 12:24 The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

 

Ecc. 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

 

1 Tim. 5:8 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

 

AND BELIEVE ME… THERE ARE A FEW DOZEN MORE VERSES ON THIS SUBJECT.

So we are called to do our part, and God will do his part… but we gotta do our part.

There was a man who inherited an old irish garden with stone walls, and statues and at one time tons of rich flowers, shrubs and greenery with beautiful paths and columns … but now it was all run down, overtaken by weeds, walls had toppled, statues were green with moss… it was ugly.

So the man got busy and busted his tail for a few years and turned it back into it’s once beautiful garden. Pretty soon everyone wanted to come visit, people would want their weddings there, and graduation pictures taken there, people from out of town would come and see it.

One day the man was walking around with some tourists when a man in the group said… you know this is all wonderful but lets be  honest its God who gave the seed, brings the rain, makes the sun shine and even causes things to grow. The owner of the garden said I can’t agree with you more!… but just between you and me… when just God was in charge of this place it was a mess