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Thursday... What is our purpose?


Thursday... What is our purpose?

There are things in our life that we wish weren't there but they are so necessary. Now each morning that we need to get up to go to work, we think how good it would be to just turn over and not have to go to work. But work is necessary. We were built to work. Work is not a curse because of Adam and Eve's fall, no Adam had a job before their fall.

There is a verse in Proverbs 14 that catches my attention each month that I read it. It is verse 4 (NLT) and it says, "Without oxen a stable stays clean, but you need a strong ox for a large harvest."  What do you want? A clean stable or food to eat? The Message says, "No cattle, no crops; a good harvest requires a strong ox for the plow." The Amplified Bible says, "Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but much revenue [because of good crops] comes by the strength of the ox." The ox has a purpose.

Now each one of God's creation was created for a purpose. Just because we have a relationship with God doesn't mean that we are to sit back and wait on God to provide. No, the relationship means that we know that God has built us for a purpose and he wants us to seek out what it is and do it. 

Think of this, if we would stop and see that in this verse, there are a lot of different tasks to be done. The ox doesn't feed itself, it doesn't clean up after itself, it doesn't put on it's harness, it doesn't put on the plow by itself and on and on. And that is the way God has created this world. We really do need each other. And if someone decided they didn't want to do their part of the process it would affect the whole process.

Look at verse 23 (NLT), it says, "Work brings profit, but mere talk leads to poverty."

I love doing what I am doing. God has built me with a purpose and he is actively involved in what I am doing. And that is true of you too. Listen, God has a wonderful plan for your life. He really does. And that is one of the great benefits of having a relationship with God.

Now responsibility is also important for us to see. Somebody has to be responsible for cleaning up after those cattle or those kids or the family or that dog or that boss or whatever it is in your life that you don't really enjoy doing. There are parts of our life that may not be fun but they go along with what God has given us to do.

Yes, a clean stable all the time would be great but so is a large harvest. So when you get up tomorrow morning think of all the benefits it means to you and all those around you. Yes, God has been so good to us and it starts with what God has given us to do. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


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