What Are You Working For?

There is an old expression that has a Biblical truth, “If you do not work, you do not eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10). But, what are we working for? The physical food we eat may nourish our bodies for 60, 70, or even 80 plus years and that’s it. Yet, the food we eat must be replenished daily because it does not last, just as our physical bodies do not last.

Jesus warns us in John 6:27, “Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him”. God did not place man on earth to work for food only. The word “work” as used here means to strive for it.

We need to work (strive) for the “food” that will result in our being right with God so we may have everlasting life with Him. Jesus came to this earth to be our Savior and to save us from our sins when we believe and obey His gospel.

Today, billions of people are spiritually starving to death because they do not know “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4). Just hearing and knowing is not enough, we must obey God’s commands. Jesus said, “blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it” (Luke 11:28)!

Friend, where are you? Are you staving to death because you do not know God’s word? If you know God’s commands, are you obeying them? If you need to, will you get right with God?



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Stay true to the Word,

Brother Travis