“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
PSALM 13-16
1Lord, who may dwell in your sacred tent? Who may live on your holy mountain?2The one whose walk is blameless, who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from their heart;3whose tongue utters no slander, who does no wrong to a neighbor, and casts no slur on others; 4who despises a vile person but honors those who fear the Lord; who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and does not change their mind; 5who lends money to the poor without interest; who does not accept a bribe against the innocent. Whoever does these things will never be shaken.(15)
ACTS 18
1After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, 3and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them. 4Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.
JOURNAL
Paul worked as a Tentmaker. He had a job...he did what he had to do, to contribute and be part of society. This is encouraging and also a lesson in the way of Christ. Are there bigger more important things than Paul working as a tentmaker...yes, of course. Yet working is also more important than I often realize. We are called to work, to do hard things, to sometimes grind in the minutia. At times it sucks, but learning to do it with a sense of joy because I can, because its a gift, that's the secret and that is our calling.
100 years from now will most of the details of today matter?...no. Yet scripture still tells me that it does. It tells me that the hairs of my head are numbered and God knows them all. It tells me that I am to concern myself with the problems of today. That means that living today, trusting God and doing it with gratitude and joy is my ultimate calling. Today is what I'm given...it's too important to waste its moments worried over tomorrow.
6In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teachinga you received from us. 7For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you, 8nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. 9We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate.
100 years from now will most of the details of today matter?...no. Yet scripture still tells me that it does. It tells me that the hairs of my head are numbered and God knows them all. It tells me that I am to concern myself with the problems of today. That means that living today, trusting God and doing it with gratitude and joy is my ultimate calling. Today is what I'm given...it's too important to waste its moments worried over tomorrow.
6In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teachinga you received from us. 7For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you, 8nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. 9We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate.
2 THESSALONIANS 3:6-9
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