TUESDAY - 11TH FEBRUARY, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
THE VIRTUE OF WORK
Ephesians 4:28, KJV
"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 needeth."
As you grow, you'll get to a place where you're weaned from selfishness. You'll get to a place where you identify needs and thirst being a vessel through which they could be met. If there's a need, let us say an announced need and you have nothing to give especially when you desire to do so and are filled with compassion for the needy, you'll resolve that it isn't good seeing needs and being limited or hindered from attending to it because of personal lack or want.
In many places in the Bible, we're encouraged on the virtue of work and thorough hardwork. Anyone who's praying for the Lord's blessing is a man who should be ready to work. By the time God's blessings (a spiritual substance) comes upon you, it'll need physical manifestation of hard work to manifest realistically to everyone. Joseph carried the blessing though a slave but he still had to work. Only that at working, everything he touches results in midas' touch.
When we work, we do so to fulfill a commandment that gets us armed with potential to meet our personal obligations and that of others. God is always making us our brother's keeper. How many of you had wanted to give help somewhere before only to find out that you are powerless economically or materially? Towards eliminating this reason, we're commanded to work. We're to work so that instead of being at the receiving end (the one everybody helps), we're at the giving end. This way, we'll fulfill Jesus' word that says it's better to give than receive (Acts 20:35).
If you don't work, you won't be empowered to meet your needs and that of others. More so, don't think God will rain manna down from heaven for you. The means through which God provides for anyone including those working in His vineyard full time is through the body called work. Even the Bible says concerning those ones, "let he who is taught spiritual things share or communicate physical things with he who teaches him" (I Cor. 9:11, Gal. 6:6). As one labour at the ministry of the Word, his supplies are meant to come through those who are being ministered to and blessed by those words.
God's target is not to make you the blessed only but a blessing. It's to the end, "that you may be able to give to him that needs." He wants to make you a channel and pass resources through you to those in earnest needs. Have you not read the verse which says, "and God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work" (II Cor. 9:8).
God's intent is to pass resources to you. He wants to use you to eradicate physical needs and even spiritual. Just because of that, He'll go the extra mile of blessing you and ensuring you're independent, buoyant and having all sufficiency so you could minister to others. It is sufficiency in all things! See, you're blessed for others' sake. Don't hoard it.
PRAYER: I have all sufficiency in all things as to be able to give.
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Leviticus 1-2
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