THRIVE: Working Yourself to Death? NOT!

Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich.  Be wise enough to know when to quit. 
Proverbs 23:4

Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich;  restrain yourself!  Riches disappear in the blink of an eye; wealth sprouts wings and flies off into the wild blue yonder. MSG (23:4-5)


Complete this sentence:  " I wish/pray I had more_____________________________."  Now depending on what you placed in the blank or popped in your mind, are you really content without that?   Or is that what you are working for.  Is that literally what you are living, exhausting yourself for?

In the book " It All Goes Back In The Box," John Ortberg takes us down the journey of Western civilization living and greed where we spend our lives attempting to acquire things, or pay off the debt from the things we've acquired......never really given consideration that this game called life will some day end, and like a physical board game........when it's over: it all goes back in the box.

Solomon having lived a life where he too chased after all the wrong things, thinking that it would reward him with happiness or contentment, only to realize it's all vanity/selfishness/empty living.

So you are now at work by now, or preparing to leave the home........I simply ask are you truly living or working yourself to death?  If you are living you are excited about today, and all the impregnated possibilities that God has planned in advance for you.   But if you are in the majority; working yourself to death, you weren't that thrilled about today, and as a matter of fact you may have even said you needed another day off, because you failed to rest and enjoy what God has provided you with.   The Message version states it plainly "restrain yourself," (pacing is important in any race) why because none of us are promised tomorrow, and working my fingers through the bone or until I'm dog tired.....that's not living/thriving......that's surviving.  

Famous quote of the week....." Even if you win the rate race, at the end race, you're still a rat!"   Who wants to be eulogized as a rat?  LGLP