Colossians 1:29
‘For this reason I labor (unto weariness), striving with all the super human energy which He so mightily enkindles and works within me.(AMP)
The rat race. Getting up before dawn, going to sleep well after dusk. The constant motion, noise and activity. the busyness and the art of looking busy (which some of us have perfected).
It would amaze us, what we would discover, if we would stop to ask ourselves: why am I doing all this?
Why am I working where I work? Why am I struggling so hard or so little? Why do I do the things I do, go the places I go, and wear the things I wear?
Paul applied wisdom taught in business schools today. He knew the first step to effective living and success is to identify your goal. In verse 28, he’d identified his goal. Every thing he did/went through had to be measured in terms with its alignment to his goal. So he preached and taught and encouraged even when in prison, would not stop during trials and hard times, wrote letters that would become the doctrinal basis of the church. All because he wanted to raise mature Christians every where. For this reason he labored.
Let me ask you, for what reason do you labor? Have you stopped to think? Or are you on auto pilot? God’s superhuman power has been made mightily available to work in you, to aid you in achieving your purpose. Have you made a demand on this strength withen you?
Before you flunk down into bed tonight, exhausted from another day in the rat race. Stop and ask yourself, for what reason do you labor? And I sincerely hope the answer you give yourself is strong enough to echo throughout eternity.
Shalom