The business you worked hard to build, your career or job you invested so much of your time, the ministry you labour to build day and night or any other pursuit you desire progress and worked hard to see grow crumbles or stays stagnant. All your efforts is yielding no fruit or sometimes, little fruits. It's painful, right?
Well, I saw something in God's word that can cause you to see the results you so much yearn for when embarking on your purpose journey or working on an endeavor. It's called DIVISION OF LABOUR. Yes, division of labour is taught in economics but it is in God's word too.
In economics, we were taught that division of labor is the assigning of different tasks to different people, which increases productivity and ultimately profits which will eventually lead to economic and monetary gains.
Division of labour doesn't only make a large work broken in bits and easier to tackle but also increases efficiency and yields more profits.
Now, I'm comparing this to our personal work (labour) in life.
Everyone is in a pursuit for something. Every responsible person is engaging him/herself in a work that pertains his/her means of survival or achievement of a feat in life. Be it a business, career, bagging a degree, pursuing a passion, etc.
However, in other to see to its success, you toil by investing lots of efforts and resources to ensure it yields increase and substantial growth. Day and night, your physical, mental, financial and even emotional strength is involved in it.
You won't get the actual result you want when you do it alone. The workload should be equitably divided.
Apostle Paul told the Corinthians, "I planted, Apollos watered but GOD GAVE THE INCREASE."
Then he said,
"for WE ARE CO-WORKERS WITH GOD..." (1 Corinthians 3:6&9).
It is evident through this scripture that when the work is divided (working on your part while God work on His), the whole thing becomes easier and you incur increase and prosperity.
There is no way apostle Paul and other apostles would have made all the waves they made without God involved.
Okay! You may be thinking,"that was God's own work. He'll surely cause the increase".
Then let me give you a scenario you can relate to.
In Genesis 11:1-9, the tower of babel was initiated and well planned just as many of us dream and plan big projects. Their purpose was to build a tower that will reach the heavens, to make a name for themselves, and to have them gathered in one place (unity) and together (vs 4).
They started the project but just couldn't finish it. Why? God wasn't participating in it. God saw their intelligent, strategic plan, their determination and focus to make their dream a reality. He knew they'll succeed (vs 6), but though all those traits were present, their plans didn't work.
What does this tell you?
No matter how determined you are to pursue a cause, if God is not in support, you'll just keep moving in circles and will end up frustrated. That's why it is dangerous to engage in what God doesn't want for you.
If it works, it's because God permitted it to work. If it's not working, you'll have to check twice.
Determination is good.
Strong will is wonderful.
Focus is ideal and needed.
But I tell you by God's word, you will go nowhere when God isn't involved no matter the intensity of those qualities I aforementioned.
Apply division of labour in all your life's pursuit.
Get God involved. His own Word already tells that He's also working as we are. You are working, He's working His own part. Keep planting and watering your efforts as God on the other side keeps giving the increase.
You're building a business, put Jesus first. You're pursuing a degree, acknowledge Jesus. In your job or career, Jesus should be at the center.
Never fail to make Jesus part of the building journey because except Jesus builds the house, the builders builds in vain.
"Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain. In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat-- for he grants sleep to those he loves." (Psalms 127:1-3).
This is God's Word, not man's.
Having said all these, I trust you'll INVOLVE GOD IN YOUR LABOUR.
Shalom!
Wonderful, thank you Ma
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