Genesis 2:15
“The LORD God took the man… in order to have him work…”
Stop being lazy. And stop complaining even if you think your work was or is too hard. Stop being arrogant, too, if you consider that you had been or are working very hard. Keep on working; just don’t work outside of God’s will.
Seek wisdom, plan wisely;
work and rest accordingly.
And remember: Find joy in life.
“Much will be required from everyone to whom much has been given. But even more will be demanded from the one to whom much has been entrusted.”
Jesus – [Gospel of Luke 12:48]
To expound: All Creation has been entrusted to the one, unique Son of God [Matt 28:18], who labours even more – i.e. is still working, as always [John 5:17], having travailed up to the Cross, resurrected from death, and seated on the Most High [1Cor 15:3-8; Heb 12:2]. Definitely, everyone has been given even God’s own Son and Spirit; this is infinitely much! What an amazing grace!
“… T’was grace that taught my heart to fear,
and grace my fear relieved…”
By such grace, God worked so that everyone is saved from sin [Eph 2:8], much is therefore required as everyone is called toward total submission to God’s will – toward the faith in his unique Son [Matt 7:21, 16:24; John 6:29,39-40].
Now, faith without work is dead [James 2:20-26]. And work is certainly not one that merely earns individual merits or profits. Instead, holiness in (i.e. setting apart for God) every aspect of life [1Pet 1:15] is all the more important; it results only from the work that is rooted in love, faith and hope [1Cor 13:13; 1Thes 1:1-3], done and taught by God, in and through our lives [Matt 28:19; John 14:12, 16:13; 1John 4:19].
Good or bad, a deed is a work done, and a result follows every deed, while life goes on and on until it ends [Eccles 12:13-14]: I can either continually let God change my life as I offer it for his best, or settle for the lesser and let it rot to damnation!
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