2Ch 31:21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered
Many of us are good at starting a thing but not in finishing it. But Hezekiah the king began every work as an act of service to God. He sought the things that he should do by diligently studying the word of God. He obeyed the commandments. He sought God. He did all these things with all his heart and therefore it is recorded that he prospered.
Whatever we set our heart to do, we must do it with all our heart. It means being passionate about whatever we are doing. It means doing it as if we are doing it not for ourselves or to please others but doing it to please God. God becomes a partner in our busyness and in our business. No more will we have an excuse that our busyness with our business has kept us from God. Work itself becomes an act of worship and the results or success reaped from such work yet another cause to be thankful and worshipful of God.
Today, we see the failure of profit-driven capitalistic work culture around the world in the Occupy the symbols of capitalism movement. Instead of yearning for profits, we must yearn with all our heart to do our utmost for God in all that we do. We must learn to do what God wants us or tells us to do. Then we are building our life enterprise on a rock foundation that neither changes in the economy or tectonic shifts of technology or politics or events will affect. The process that the Word of God upholds is Yearning ( with all your heart) to do God’s expressed and implicit will, Learning to do it right and in the best way and finally, it leads up to Earning. Do all things as if we are doing it for our Eternal Employer, our ever present Empowerer and Enabler.
Prateep V Philip
Thank you Prateep. I take heart when I read some of your thoughts, some of them I store in my heart. God bless you and your family
ReplyDeleteMolly Varghese
Exceptional SIIM (Spiritual Introspective Inspirational Motivational Meditation) Prateep!
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There is a premonition within me that in time to come
This could be built-up to an empirical 'Kingdom way-of-life'
Best wishes Lawrence aka Yaseva, Propel Globel
Yaseva
Sheer-Success
If every work is to be act of service to God
We need to seek the things we should do diligently
According to what pleases and delights God
Do the things that bring a smile on His face!
Whatever we set our heart to do
We got to do it passionately
Do it as if we are doing it not for our self
Or to please others but to please our creator
God becomes our partner and co-worker
In our busyness and in our business
No more will we have the excuse
That our busyness kept us away from God
When God is the cause of all our work
Work itself becomes an act of worship
We become living sacrifices totally pleasing to God
And the result reaped from such work is...Sheer-Success
Sheer-Success for us in this age
Sheer-Success in the age to come
Sheer-Success for family and friends
Sheer-Success for the world around
Life-Enterprise Empowerer
Alas! Post modern slavery spreads rapidly everywhere
Capitalistic Profit-driven work-culture kills individuality
Corporate slavery is the foundation of capitalism
Yearn not for extreme profits
But yearn with heart and mind
To do our utmost for God
Learning to do what God is prompting
Building our life-enterprise on solid rock
That neither changes crashes nor crumbles
Resistant to tectonic shifts of economy
Politics events and technology
Providence powered mobility
Yearning with our heart and mind
To do God’s expressed and implicit will
Yearning to do it in the best way
Yearning leads to learning and learning to earning-enabling
Rewards galore are ours in this life and in the age to come
When God the creator is our Life Enterprise Empowerer
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