Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.
Ecclesiastes 11:6
Wouldn’t the Christian’s journey be more peaceful if we all put this verse into practice?Accept the way God does things, for who can straighten what He had made crooked?
Ecclesiastes 7:13
Basically, the Teacher, aka the Preacher, presumably King Solomon says:
- Keep working.
- Work hard.
- Be diligent.
- Make wise and diversified investments.
About work:
- Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!
Psalm 90:17 (ESV)
- You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
Psalm 128:2 (ESV)
- The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
Proverbs 13:4 (ESV)
- Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
Proverbs 16:3 (ESV)
- Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Colossians 3:23-24 (ESV)
About sleep and rest:
- I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.
Psalm 3:5 (ESV)
- It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
Psalm 127:2 (ESV)
- A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
Proverbs 6:10 (ESV)
Commit the work of my hands to the Lord, and make adjustments according to His leading.
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