Enjoying The Harvest (Daily Devotional)

Hi everyone, welcome to Living Supernaturally. Thank you so much for joining us over this entire week. We’ve been talking about work which is God’s original design. Today, we will end with enjoying the harvest. 2 Timothy chapter 2, verses 3 to 6, ‘You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. And also, if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops.’ A delicious joy comes with eating the first fruit of vegetable that you have grown in your own garden. People who grow up in farms and with gardens know this joy intimately. This joy is intensified when you’ve been involved in the gardening, the strenuous process of helping the plant grow. The apostle Paul knew the value of hard work. He could say comparing himself with the other apostles, in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, verse 10, he says, ‘I labor more abundantly than they all.’ Paul wasn’t just called, he wasn’t just blessed and anointed, Paul was also hard working. His ministry would have been far less than it was if he had not worked hard. The apostle Paul knew the balance of working hard, yet he also knew that it was from the grace of God. In our verse today, the farmer is rightly described as hardworking. As much as we may enjoy gardening or farming, it is still hard work. Without a constant focus on planting and protecting the garden and doing the weeding and watering, the garden will be limited and the harvest will be less. Joy comes from being intimately involved from start to the finish. Seeing the growth and being the first to receive and enjoying the bounty that comes from the work of your hands. Work hard, work hard serving others, and you and I will find joy in sharing the refreshing harvest of transformed lives around us. Let’s pray, Father, we thank you for this week, and we thank you for teaching us about work and even as we continue to fulfill your call and purpose in each of our lives, even as we work and labor, we pray that you will bless the work of our hands, that you will enable us to maintain this balance, you will enable us to be fruitful in all that we do. Give us strategies, ideas, innovations, by the Holy Spirit and help us to glorify you, in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

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