"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest."
The first half of this verse is often quoted, but the last half is forgotten. The reason of the more meaningful first part is to emphasize the second part. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might - word study, find; Let us keep the whole phrase together for our study. If we divided this phrase, it would not serve the whole purpose that we hope for. All men can find something to do. that is not the question. The question is, when you find something to do, how do you do it? Now we know the truth of this verse is before us. Many can answer it, but is there 'proof in the puddin' for our undertakings. Do we do everything with our might? Or is so often quoted, 'all our might'? LEt our past be reflective of this truth. Let there be testimony that God gave us a task to do, and we did it with our strength. He is our stregnth; He enables us to go forward. Our breath, our health/body, our desire and our power to do/strength is all found as gifts from Him.
When you consider great saints, look at how they labored with all their stregnth to serve. They was on a mission; they had a task to complete. I think of David Livingstone, who bore the heat, the hazards of Africa to reach those tribes with the Gospel. And at the end of his life, body racked with disease, pain and wounds was faithful to labor as we all should. He saw the need, he labored and he did with his strength. We know there is much weakness in the church today. Far too many are sitting in idle ease while the work of the kingdom languishes. May God give to us a the purpose at hand. Let us see it, respond to it and go do it. Let us be found faithful in great and small things.
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