I know many talented individuals and go getters in this world. They are driven. They set their sights on a goal and they either accomplish it or give it all in their defeat.
There’s a problem though. This Earth is for only 80 years maximum or at least before the body starts to put on the brakes. You really don’t get out and start doing your hard work and building your achievements until you’re at least 30 on the average. So were talking 50 years to enjoy the fruits of your labor, if you live that long.
Nothing wrong with ambition, in fact the complete opposite is laziness.
God loves hard work and there is nowhere in the bible that praises laziness. Solomon wrote on it quite a bit.
Proverbs 10:4 – 4 Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.
Proverbs 6: – 6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! 7 It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, 8 yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. 9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest- 11 and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.
Jesus in the parable of the talents finishes it like this.
Matthew 25: – 26“His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest. 28” ‘Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. 29For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 30And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Now this parable has a lot to it, but I think you get the point on where I was going with it. God and Jesus are clearly not socialists by the definition of this parable. They want you to work and there not to crazy on laziness.
Tomorrow we will wrap up this message concerning hard work.