The Miracle of Work Will Solve This Problem

Proverbs 6:6 – Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!

Proverbs 6:7 – It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,

Proverbs 6:8 – yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

Proverbs 6:9 – How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

Proverbs 6:10 – A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest —

Proverbs 6:11 – and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

6:9  So how long are you going to laze around doing nothing? How long before you get out of bed?

6:10  A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back, take it easy—do you know what comes next?

6:11  … a dirt-poor life, poverty your permanent houseguest! (Message Bible)

Poverty is a very serious problem amongst us. Poverty is when you are helpless and you can’t afford and access what is most basic to make your life possible. You are poor if you can’t access proper food, shelter, clothes, basic education and medical care.

There are many of us who are potentially poor. One step away from poverty. We barely access what is most basic. We have climbed out of poverty by one step. If something negatively affects our finances, we will suddenly go back to poverty. Therefore we are potentially poor. If our jobs end now or businesses closes today and we get no other source of income, then three to six months from now we will revert to poverty, unable to access or afford basics. We are potentially poor!

If a major disease comes that demands lots of money and in a short time all our lifetime savings are gone, aren’t we living in potential poverty? If war breaks out as we foolishly dare each other during political contests, wouldn’t we be poor people in refugee camps armed with certificates, but poor, and our favorite politicians out of the country calling shots.

Poverty can be a result of many external factors that an individual has no control over. Prolonged drought affecting those who purely depend on planting and/or livestock. War affecting businesses and employment, etc.

Poverty can also be a state of mind. You are poor in comparison with others in your social class or neighborhood. You are poor because you want more than you have yet ideally you have enough. This poverty is as real as any other poverty because the individual suffers. The individual has a house, cars, savings and life they believe is too low and their desire for more makes them poor and unhappy.

The Bible in our text today addresses the poverty of not doing anything about our situation. We are poor and dissatisfied, but what are we doing about it? Without action poverty will become a reality.

You can blame the government, but in the end you remain in mental anguish and suffer need. You can blame rich nations, rich people, accuse them of shifting circumstances in their favor or succeeding immorally, but at the end of your patriotic and deep insight speech, you are still poor. The Bible says, stand up and learn from ants. Work your way out of poverty!

We can attract sympathy, which will give us tokens of comfort, but afterwards we remain poor. We can become beggars and get addicted to the shortcut of free offers, but we remain poor. The Bible tells us not to wait for a miracle out of poverty. There are no miracles out of poverty except the miracle of work.

As you work hard to get out of poverty, God blesses your efforts and makes them productive enough to alleviate your poverty. When God blesses your efforts or work to get out of poverty, that is the miracle of work. The miracle of work will solve this problem!

2 Kings 4:1-17, a prophets widow is so poor she can’t pay her debts. She is so poor her children are about to go to slavery to pay the debts. She seeks help from the man of God. The man of God gives her work to do because there is a miracle of work. She is told to collect as many containers as possible. That is work. Then God provided a miracle that filled the borrowed containers with oil for sale and use. The miracle came to her work. There is a miracle of work that can solve this problem of poverty!

The widow of Zarephath was poor because of prolonged drought. There was nothing she could do except trust the servant of God. That is how she got her miracle. There was nothing she could do except wait to die.

Are we sure we have also reached a wait to die situation? Is a free things mentality and addiction obstructing us from seeing what to do? Is a beggar mentality causing us to believe that the only way out is to be helped? If there is something we can do, and we make clever complaints and excuses, no miracle will come, we will remain poor. The miracle of work requires that we play our honest part and God will do the rest. The miracle of work will address most of the poverty problems!

The miracle of work is doing your best of everything you must do to get out of poverty, and then God blesses those efforts with abundant results. Doing your best is not seeking free things or begging for help. Doing your best is making efforts to have a sustainable income. Then God blesses those efforts. That is the miracle of work!

You can’t pray your way out of poverty, you must work your way out, as you call on God. Don’t pray to pass exams, instead, pray as you attend classes, attempt exams, seek assistance from teachers, read and read again what is unclear until it’s clear. Then God will bless your honest efforts. That blessing of your honest efforts is the miracle of work.

Do your best and God does the rest is the miracle of work mantra. Do your best in school and God will do the rest. Do your best at work and God will do the rest. Do your best in whatever gives you income and God will do the rest. Do your best in branding. Do your best in customer care. Do your best in impressing your bosses with timely well done work. Do your best in farming and animal care. Do your best in savings and investment. After you do your best, God will bless it by doing the rest, and that is the miracle of work.

The following paraphrased statement has been attributed to Ellen Gould White. “Work hard as if everything depends on your efforts and then pray and trust God completely as if everything depends on God only.” That combination is what the miracle of work is made of.

May God bless us with wisdom and resilience to do our best. May God bless our best efforts with abundant results beyond any expectations. May we experience this miracle of work in all that we do, in Jesus’s name, Amen!

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