Diligence And God - Article

Greetings to you all blessed people of our God Almighty. This is the first article from the long time being I was planning to modify my blog and decided to include some articles also. And as I was concerned to start writing this article, I was totally blank about what i will write about. And I asked god about this. And He gave me the word Proverbs 12:24.

 It says
 
   "The hand of the diligent will rule, But the lazy man will be put to forced labour."

 As we consider our everyday life, we can see how much diligence we are keeping. Even among the Born again Christians. It's really a disappointment. In fact, Diligence comes from interest. When we are actually monitoring each and every second in our life we can see that, we are diligent in the things that we are most interested in. And the else, we always keep the mind of an ignorant. As we search the life of Jesus in the planet earth we can see, he choose not the lazy people as his disciples but, all the people that he choose, they were busy with something. This we can see in the bible at Matthew 4:18-22.

 Matthew 4:18-22 says

   "And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. Then He said to them, Follow Me and I will make you fishers of men. They immediately left their nets and followed Him. Going on from there, he saw two brothers, James the son of Zeb'e-dee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zeb'e-dee their father, mending their nets. He called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him."

 This is a key. God is always watching over us. That's clearly said in Psalm 53:2
 
   "God looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God."

 Our heavenly father is looking on every one of us and he picks the one who seems busy, And diligent in what ever they are doing, to change their life and use them for doing the God's purpose in this world. This we can see in the life of Paul. Even though he is hurting the God's people he was diligent in what he is doing. And it's says like he didn't know the All Mighty God when he is doing all these things. And he was diligent in what he is doing. Then, what happened? One encounter with God changed him to become the greatest disciple of Jesus and he went to different places all around the world and started to share the gospel and thousands of people came to know the truth, repented off their sins, baptized and become disciples of Jesus. This incident is written in Acts 9:3-7

 It says

   "And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man."

God is looking for such people who are responsible, diligent for what they are doing.

 Psalm 53:3 says

   "Every one of them has turned aside; They have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, No, not one."

 Take time and look back to our life, take moment on our past and think how much goodness we are received from the God. And how we can sit lazy instead going out and find a way to share the gospel, share what God has done for us and to give Him praise? Here is the will of God, to be diligent and we can see this in the bible Proverbs 8:17 and Jeremiah 29:13

 Proverbs 8:17 says
 
   "I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me."

 Jeremiah 29:13 says

   "And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart."

 This is not only about the gospel sharing. God actually wants us to enjoy our life in this earth. And the real fact is we already have these blessings upon us and we are not really aware about that. We are the sons of God here in this earth, we are not of this earth instead we are of the heaven and we are living in these earth according to the plan of God. He sent us to accomplish something for him in this earth. We are not permanent in here. Instead we are sent with a purpose. We are one of the dreams of the God.

 And again he said in Colossians 3:23
 
   "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;"

 We are already blessed with all the blessing we need to live a victorious life in this earth. And all we need now is the revelation. The revelation from the god is something helps us to discover the blessing. The path to the blessing. For that we need holy spirit. Answers for all our problems are within us. We just need to discover them. Holy spirit will help us to do that. This is where holy spirit enters the scene. When we are filled with the holy spirit then god will give us the revelations at the due time through the holy spirit within us when we are in need of an urgent help. The god is not a spoon feeder. I was told a story long ago about a father and a son. The story was like this. There was a father and a son. The father was a very rich man. The boy was a student. And he is a little bit backward in studies. One day this boy find a racing car in the car showroom and he wish to have one like that. He came to his father and ask what he thinks about that. And father said study well and score high marks and that one will reach you at the right time. And this son has passed with a first class in the exams and after the result was out, and one day his father came to his room and a gift box was there in his hands. And he gifted that to his son. And the son was really happy and he unpacked the gift. Its a Bible. He got red hot with anger. And he throw the bible to a corner of his room. Years passed, this boy grew up and became a talented business man. And his father died. After the funeral he came to the old house where they lived in his childhood and he came to see the bible he thrown out at the same place. He took that and opened it. And he saw a key is pinned inside the bible and it was the key of the new car that his father brought for him.

 From this story i came to know that all the blessings from God is not at all covered as good as we expect. It may seems not interesting but it worth a lot. We need the diligence to keep open up to the depth of the thing that God gives us and we could able to find some amazing gifts that god kept for us inside of what God given to us. So dig deep into what God has given to you and i can say one thing, may be that doesn't make you anything feels good, or that may be something that you are not interested at but at last, you worth it.

Don't live like an ignorant instead be a diligent in all things that God given to you and receive all the blessings that God keeps for you in his store. Never comfort yourself with the lowest. Never satisfy with a 30 fold, if a 100 fold is available, go for it. God will bless you. Have a nice day.

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