{"id":1479,"date":"2012-12-03T23:30:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2012-12-02T23:31:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T04:31:53","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-12-03-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/03\/pearls-of-wisdom-12-03-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 12-03-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

GOD\u2019S GIFT, ENJOY THE GOOD OF ALL YOUR LABOR<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ecclesiastes 3:13, Amplified Bible<\/strong><\/p>\n

And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor —- it is the gift of God.<\/p>\n

Ecclesiastes 3:12,13, The Bible, James Moffatt Translation<\/strong><\/p>\n

For men, I find, there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they are alive; it is indeed God\u2019s very gift to man, that he should eat and drink and be happy as he toils.<\/p>\n

Do you see in the above verse what I see?\u00a0 I am seeing this with different eyes today, like I have never read it before.\u00a0 Every person is to eat and drink (in other words, enjoy God\u2019s provision for our hunger and thirst) and enjoy good—-it is God\u2019s GIFT!\u00a0 It is God\u2019s PRESENT to us, His Beloved Ones!\u00a0 What we receive from our labor, our work here on this earth is the gift of God for us to enjoy life while we are here.\u00a0 GIFT!\u00a0 Look at that word.\u00a0 GIFT!\u00a0 Do you see it?\u00a0 We don\u2019t need to complain and gripe about how hard our job is or how hard our assignment is.\u00a0 We will enjoy good from it because it is God\u2019s GIFT!\u00a0 The One Whom you are actually serving is the Lord and not man.\u00a0\u00a0 Rejoice in the Lord.\u00a0 It is He Who has put you there.\u00a0 Enjoy where you are on the way to where He has destined you.\u00a0 Enjoy God\u2019s GIFT!<\/p>\n

We are to enjoy the good of our labor.\u00a0 I looked up that word \u201cgood\u201d and here is the meaning from the original Hebrew word:\u00a0 As a noun it means good, a good or good thing, man or woman.\u00a0 As an adverb it means beautiful, favor, bountiful, cheerful, graciously, joyful, kindly, merry, loving, pleasant, precious, prosperity, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well (favored).\u00a0 That gives me cause for rejoicing.\u00a0 What a coincidence that the Lord should give us this teaching in the month of December, the month of gift-giving.\u00a0 God is the original gift-giver.\u00a0 We cannot out give Him!\u00a0 What a delight to serve Him!<\/p>\n

Colossians 3:23, 24, Amplified Bible<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whatever may be your task, work at it heartily (from the soul), as [something done] for the Lord and not for men, knowing [with all certainty] that it is from the Lord [and not from men] that you will receive the inheritance which is your [real] reward.\u00a0 [The One Whom] you are actually serving [is] the Lord Christ (the Messiah).<\/p>\n

Everything that we do in this life while we are here on this earth is to be done as unto the Lord.\u00a0 It is not to be done for boasting or recognition or acceptance.\u00a0 We do what we do with excellence for the Lord and not for men.\u00a0 It is not to please men but to please God.\u00a0 Oh, yes, when we please God, our work will please men because it will be done without gripping or complaining and with the excellence that only God can give us.<\/p>\n

We are to have singleness of motive to do our work as a service unto the Lord.\u00a0 It is not to be done with eye service only when man is watching us but consistently excellent all the time, rendering our service to God and not to man.\u00a0 Whatever good we do, God will reward us (Ephesians 6:5-8)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We are to enjoy the fruit of our labor.\u00a0 That reward is a gift of God.\u00a0 He is the One Who rewards us.\u00a0 Those rewards of God will translate into human reward and promotion by man.<\/p>\n

Serving God, whether it is in our workplace, at home, at church or anywhere else, gives us not only earthly rewards but eternal benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOD\u2019S GIFT, ENJOY THE GOOD OF ALL YOUR LABOR Ecclesiastes 3:13, Amplified Bible And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor —- it is the gift of God. Ecclesiastes 3:12,13, The Bible, James Moffatt Translation For men, I find, there is nothing better than to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}