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LABOUR AND LOVE
*LABOUR OF LOVE*
Live Daily Die Daily Footstool Devotional
Tuesday, 21st March, 2023
Read Matthew 21: 28-31
Hebrews 6:10 KJVS - For God is NOT UNRIGHTEOUS to FORGET your WORK and LABOUR of LOVE, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have MINISTERED to the saints, and DO MINISTER.
What love got to do with labour and what has labour got to do with love? Someone will say, " As for love, it's all about patience, relaxation and taking one's time so that things will unfold naturally.. And another will say, ' As for labour, it's all about taking your life into your own hands and working hard till you see your sweat turn into blood". Love and the things of love seem to come in some cool and natural ambience. Labour and things pertaining to labour seem to unravel with speed, determination and some forcefulness and aggression.
Can love have anything to do with labour?
Can a phlegmatic successfully marry or flow with a choleric? Can slowness and speed coexist in one person? Of course it can. By nature, God made us to be able to physically function both sympathetically and parasympathetically. The difference is in when whichever becomes more relevant, and the other has to serve to complement the one.
Can you serve God well only by loving Him in your heart? No! Can you serve God well only by labouring for Him with your physical being, not your heart, feelings, thoughts and emotions srrenxer3d to Him in admiration? No! God wants a little love and a little labour from each of us. You have to give him a balanced you- having enough love and enough labour!
Love and labour are the two things that keep God awake and aware in the matters that concern you. When God sees your love and your efforts at working hard in the things that prove your love to Him, the Bible says it provokes his righteousness! God quits Himself to ensure that He makes things right for you, when he smells your adequate and proportionate amounts of love and labour. God is moved to be righteous when He sees your good balance of labour and love. He reminds Himself to keep you remembered and not forgotten when the aroma of your balanced labour and love come before Him.
Some people only want to love God in their hearts. They don't want to work hard in serving and ministering to Him. Others want to work hard to show God that they are hardworking servants. But they don't add good enough doses of love to all their work. They like to be busybodies, leaving no room to slow down and make time to love on the Lord in worship and obedience.
From today, choose to do a little love plus a little labour, okay? Your labour must be of love, and your love must be with labour.
Try to answer Jesus' question about which son did his Father's will- the one who said he will go, and did not, or the one who said he will not go, but went. A little love, a little labour- that's how to provoke God to make things right and just for you.
Live!
Anastasia Bruce
Footstool Colour
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By Dr. Anastasia Bruce*LABOUR OF LOVE*
Live Daily Die Daily Footstool Devotional
Tuesday, 21st March, 2023
Read Matthew 21: 28-31
Hebrews 6:10 KJVS - For God is NOT UNRIGHTEOUS to FORGET your WORK and LABOUR of LOVE, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have MINISTERED to the saints, and DO MINISTER.
What love got to do with labour and what has labour got to do with love? Someone will say, " As for love, it's all about patience, relaxation and taking one's time so that things will unfold naturally.. And another will say, ' As for labour, it's all about taking your life into your own hands and working hard till you see your sweat turn into blood". Love and the things of love seem to come in some cool and natural ambience. Labour and things pertaining to labour seem to unravel with speed, determination and some forcefulness and aggression.
Can love have anything to do with labour?
Can a phlegmatic successfully marry or flow with a choleric? Can slowness and speed coexist in one person? Of course it can. By nature, God made us to be able to physically function both sympathetically and parasympathetically. The difference is in when whichever becomes more relevant, and the other has to serve to complement the one.
Can you serve God well only by loving Him in your heart? No! Can you serve God well only by labouring for Him with your physical being, not your heart, feelings, thoughts and emotions srrenxer3d to Him in admiration? No! God wants a little love and a little labour from each of us. You have to give him a balanced you- having enough love and enough labour!
Love and labour are the two things that keep God awake and aware in the matters that concern you. When God sees your love and your efforts at working hard in the things that prove your love to Him, the Bible says it provokes his righteousness! God quits Himself to ensure that He makes things right for you, when he smells your adequate and proportionate amounts of love and labour. God is moved to be righteous when He sees your good balance of labour and love. He reminds Himself to keep you remembered and not forgotten when the aroma of your balanced labour and love come before Him.
Some people only want to love God in their hearts. They don't want to work hard in serving and ministering to Him. Others want to work hard to show God that they are hardworking servants. But they don't add good enough doses of love to all their work. They like to be busybodies, leaving no room to slow down and make time to love on the Lord in worship and obedience.
From today, choose to do a little love plus a little labour, okay? Your labour must be of love, and your love must be with labour.
Try to answer Jesus' question about which son did his Father's will- the one who said he will go, and did not, or the one who said he will not go, but went. A little love, a little labour- that's how to provoke God to make things right and just for you.
Live!
Anastasia Bruce
Footstool Colour