Psalms
127:2 KJV
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the
bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
It
appears to me that some Christians apply this only to house and family. They
sure preach hard on toiling in the rest of life. "Success" they like
to say, "is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration."
In some cases they brag about how late they are out either in the fields of
financial gain or of God's service. So common is this thinking that a pastor is
not thought doing his duty unless he makes himself available at all hours of
the day or night. The ministry has become that place where the man of God has
taken the place of God. Men, who are too busy to have fellowship with God force those in their
pastor to fellowship with them instead. Thus the minister himself has no time
to fellowship with God. What wickedness we have created!
It
all is the result of a lack of faith. We simply don't trust God to do as He has
said so we take His Word and build our own businesses around the Bible but
without God. There is just no excuse for being so busy that we can't be with
God. The fact is those who don't spend time with God don't because they see no
profit in it.
None
of this excuses laziness, by the way. Those who walk with God will certainly
learn to labor for God. But labor, without the walk, is vanity in the purest
sense.
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