DEVOTION
PROVERBS
WORK OR
STARVE
Prov 16:26
26 The
laborer's appetite works for him; his hunger drives him on.
NIV
There is a
great truth here regarding our life and that if we want to eat, to have food
for our stomach, to sustain our lives, we must work for it. In our great
society of this country that truth does not hold true as humanism has rep laced
the truth of God and create a subcultural of people who have taken their rest
from work and have become dependent on those who have created their condition and
give them their food, clothing and shelter from the labor of others. The truth
here is twofold. First it is right for a person to work for self, to support
the needs of self; it is that hunger for the things of life, food, clothing and
shelter which drive the righteous man to work. The second is the appetite for
the things of God. There is a hunger for within for that which sustains life,
eternal life, to be free from death that drives a person to seek after the word
of God, the truths of God. That appetite works for the good of the person, it
drives us forward. If we labor, if we hunger for God then we will have the
things of eternal life, a dwelling place, a white robe and a wedding feast fit
for the children of God. Yes, we need to labor for those temporal things of
this world, but we truly need to labor for the eternal things of heaven. Those
who labor much in the world gain much of the material things, but if they do
not labor, if they have no appetite for the things of God, then they will truly
starve to death. We will not starve for our appetite is for God.
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