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Wednesday 13 August 2014

"To be or not to be!"

(Proverbs 19:15) “Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.”

Retirement is a time to be idle and yet it is a shame to be idle; the more I look into the mirror the more I realize how wrong I have perceived so many things along life’s journey! Just about every voice we hear in society today is a trap! But why have I not understood that until now? But then again how many people ever understand! I thank God my Father for opening my eyes! It is obvious that we can be so active in the throes of life that we miss out on our calling to serve Gods as we ort! So let us understand what this lesson actually teaches!

Here it is plain to see the disposition of the sluggish; those who are always looking for easy-outs; it causes a slothfulness that will only ever end badly. It carries with it no sense, a life full of dreams with very little action. From the beginning we were all burdened with this reality and that is if we do not work we shall not eat; And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."” (Genesis 3:17-19) – Note. The penalty for sin was to work until we die and yet man in his wisdom has looked to defy the odds and at the age of 65 is now able to retire, pension funds and the like have been put into place, and then what? This perception is largely accepted by most, that the time has come to now relax, you have worked hard all your life and now it is time to be idle. Gather shells on a beach, or spend the time we have left living a life of leisure, whatever the individual determines… and then the judgment!

It is obvious to conclude that we are all meant to find a job, get busy, work and then eat. No free meal-ticket! This is the one part of the equation, but the other slice is far more valuable and often overlooked. As children of God we have all received “talents”, it is the soul we must pay careful attention too. This life with all its gathered wealth and materialism will pass away but our souls will exists forever. Here then is the observation; one that is idle in the affairs of their soul, is the one is very serious trouble. Sure, the idle who lazes about never doing a honest day’s work will suffer hunger and ends up begging bread, but the ones who take no care in working out their salvation in fear and trembling will suffer far greater loss and carry it into eternity.

I have known hard working men who have had the role of elders in a church and when retirement age was reached, they have chosen to relinquish that role to retire at the coast. They haven’t understood! What of family and friends who have chosen rather to pursue careers at the expense of their obligations to the body of Christ (the church), they too haven’t understood!

For those who wandered about in sheep’s clothing, persecuted day and night, the off scouring’s of the world, those who have been looked upon by society as useless; -Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated-- of whom the world was not worthy--wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. (Hebrews 11:36-38) -
They understood!  Where do I stand, where do you stand with this consideration? The time is short, may God help us all!   

Signing off

Tyrone  



    

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