Prayer Each Day - Working To Reach Your Potential

Working To Reach Your Potential

Do not lack diligence; be fervent in spirit; serve the Lord.  Romans  12:11

The old adage is both familiar and true:  We must pray as if everything depended upon God, but work as if everything depended upon us.  Yet sometimes, when we are weary and discouraged, we may allow our worries to sap our energy and our hope.  God has other intentions.  God intends that we pray for things, and He intends that we be willing to work for the things that we pray for.  Most importantly, God intends that our work should become His work.

Be strong and courageous, and do the work.  Don’t be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord God, my God, is with you.  He won’t leave you or forsake you.   1 Chronicles 28:20

In his second letter to the Thessalonians, Paul warns,   “if any would not work, neither should he eat”  (3:10).  And the Book of Proverbs proclaims, “One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys” (18:9)  Clearly, God’s Word commends the value and importance of diligence.  Yet we live in a world that, all too often, glorifies leisure while downplaying the importance of shoulder-to the-wheel hard work.

God did not create you to be ordinary;  He created you for far greater things.  Reaching for greater things usually requires work and lots of it, which is perfectly find with God.  After all, He knows that you’re up to the task, and He has big plans for you.  Very big plans.

If you want to reach you potential, you need to add a strong work ethic to your talent.   John Maxwell

Lord, let me be an industrious worker in Your fields.  Those fields are ripe, Lord, and Your workers are few.  Let me be counted as Your faithful, diligent servant today, and every day.   Amen