Life

Men for the sake of making a living most often forget to live.

Psalm 127:2, “It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of anxious toil – for He gives blessings to His beloved in sleep.”

We all do it. Every single one of us. We all run and run until life’s no fun. Working for the weekend and nowadays working through the weekend as well.

They say the average work week here in the United States is 40 hours. That’s 8 hours a day Monday through Friday.  In actuality, the average work week in the U.S. is more like 55 to 65 hors per week. That’s 9 to 10 hours a day and 6 to 7 days a week. Most is  working a full-time and a part-time job. Approximately 30% of the work force works close to 80 hours per week with almost 90% of them working 2 full-time jobs.

I’m just counting the men and heads of households. I don’t even want to frighten you with the statistics of households where both mother and father work. It’s just insane! You’d think with all this work going on that there should be no economic crisis whatsoever. Everyone should be living on easy street.

Sadly, that’s not the case. Most of these households where either the father is working 2 FT jobs or both parents are working insane amounts of hours are so far in debt that they have literally become indentured servants to their creditors. All those hours and all that work to make minuscule dents in the money they owe on credit cards, cars they can’t afford and houses that even Bill Gates and Warren buffet would think twice about paying for. They will never be able to pay them off in their lifetimes without some serious cutbacks and divine intervention.

Now while the kids have this huge house, a video room to make George Lucas jealous, cars and other assorted status symbols what do they really have? Anxiety, high blood pressure, nervous breakdowns, marital discord, rebellious children and innumerable other problems as varied as the people themselves. All for the ability to say I have a $500,000 home 2 BMW’s and 3 Mercedes.

God offers us so much more for so little. Matthew 11:28-30 says, “Come unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Rest in Christ and allow Him to lead and guide you. Matthew 6:33 says to”… seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be given unto you.” You see that. God says seek His will and His way. Seek His Kingdom and His righteousness and all those things will be given to you. You won’t need to work 80 hours a week to pay your bills and just squeak by.