Monday... How is your appetite today?

Monday... How is your appetite today? And how does it make a difference in what you will do today?

Proverbs (NLT) 16:26 says, "It is good for workers that have an appetite; an empty stomach drives them on." And that is so true. If you have everything you want then you can become lazy and that isn't God's plan for us. We need an appetite to get up and get going.

Did you know that work is God's plan? But you might say, no, the sin of Adam and Eve brought work into play. But that is not true. God gave Adam a job before sin entered the world. He was to name every animal that He, God, had created.

In my reading yesterday, I came across this verse in Psalm 105:19, "Until the time came to fulfill his dreams, the Lord tested Joseph's character." Those were not dreams that Joseph came up with on his own, they were dreams that God gave him and they were very important dreams and he had to be tested to see if he had what it took to live them out.

That is where appetite comes in. God gives it to you. He wants to know what you are going to do with it. It is a test of your character.

Proverbs 15:20 says, "A lazy person's way is blocked with briers, but the path of the upright is an open highway."

So how is your appetite today? Remember, it is there to get you going. My appetite as a retired person was to get up today and give you a thought of encouragement that would help you get up and do what God has planned for you to do. And it starts with your appetite. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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