“But now Timothy has just returned, bringing us good news about your faith and love. He reports that you always remember our visit with joy and that you want to see us as much as we want to see you. So we have been greatly encouraged in the midst of our troubles and suffering, dear brothers and sisters, because you have remained strong in your faith. It gives us new life to know that you are standing firm in the Lord” 1Thesalonnians 3:6-8
God made us to work for a number of reasons. We saw one of the reasons yesterday. You’re not just working. God made you and program your body to work.
After creating Adam, he told him to cultivate the garden before he ate the fruits. “And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat”- Genesis 2:15-16.
You are born with a working blood. Another reason God wants you to work, is to for you to feed yourself. “Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread” – 2 Thessalonians 3:12.
When you work, God expects you to take care of your family. Failure to do so, puts you in the class of unbelievers. “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel (unbeliever)” – 1Timothy 5:8.
God should have been on earth to supply the needs of others. As a result of this He would bless the work of your hands so you can help others in his name. “Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needs” – Ephesians 4:28.
God even said because of helping the poor he would bless your work. “You shall surely give him (poor), and your heart shall not be grieved when you give unto him: because that for this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand unto” – Deuteronomy 15:10.
Failure to help the poor attracts divine sanction. “(If) your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries unto the LORD against you, and it be sin unto you” – Deuteronomy 15:9. Your inability to give to the needy has the capacity to cause God to lock up his blessings to you.
God showed us how to give by giving his last and begotten son to us for a sacrifice. Then he said: “Be you therefore followers of God, as dear children” – Ephesians 5:1. Just look at the number of sons and daughters God has today and follow his giving example.
LET’S PRAY
Eternal Father, give me grace enough to know that, when I fail to sow seed at seed time, l will be a spectator at harvest time. Holy Father let Your Mercy and Grace take more of me and give more of You to always be Your Hand reaching out demonstrating Your love through giving in the glorious name of Jesus Christ. Amen Amen Amen.
Fountain to all areas of your life in the glorious name of Jesus Christ. Amen Amen Amen.
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