“Where
no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.”
Pro 14:4
When a farmer
has no ox, the stable will be clean but he will not be profitable. Labor has
its rough, unpleasant side, yet it ends in profit. The affairs or business of
the world brings us before others and with it cares and disturbances, but also much
increase. The only way to keep your life free of people and problems is to keep
it free of people. But if your life is empty of people, it is useless; and if
you live only for yourself, your life loses its meaning. Instead of avoiding
people and its problems, we should labor to serve others, share our faith, and
work for justice. There will be a sure reward of that activity in good works
for him who goes, as with “the strength of the ox,” to the task of laboring and
investing in others to which God calls us all. Though it may be messy the
profit is eternal.
HSAY…Todd
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