“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard”
How many of us our desperate to work for God? You see I have a personal problem with being disciplined, and waking up everyday at the master’s gate and saying Lord what do you want me to do today? Lord I am available use me, Lord not my will be done but yours. Sometimes working for God means working your 9-5 like you were working for him. It means talking about Christ and what he’s done when the opportunity arises, or even creating those opportunities. It means serving the needy,giving to the less fortunate, befriending the friendless, helping the single mom, being the single mom, or dad. It means being a good mom, dad, son, daughter. It means being a good friend, coworker, being punctual, loving, not grumbling or complaining but thankful because your reward is not your paycheck, but honoring the one who called you into his service. There’s a concept working for the glory, honor and name of the one who called you.
There is no unemployment in God’s kingdom. I repeat their is no unemployment in God’s kingdom, he has a job for you.
You see we clock in to this life when we are born, and the clock is reset when we are born again and clock out at our deaths, but how much time do we live serving, seeking, communicating with the King, our Lord and master. How much of that time do we really serve him; seeking to become like him, to minister to the world in our sacrificial giving up of our dreams our plans, hopes, goals aspirations; and for us young Americans entertainment, for his kingdom purposes. We can read blogs, sports, news, gossip tirelessly, but faint a minute into reading Genesis; and 3 seconds into Leviticus.
The question I must return to is the simple question that Malachi poses. Will a man rob God? How often do we rob God by our refusal to leave our Judah and go to Nineveh. How often do we rob him by hording and hijacking him of our time, energy, and talent, and then boast about the crumbs we offer him on Sunday. Will a man rob God, the simple answer is a resounding yes, and in the words of Malcolm X we do it by any means necessary.
It is time to stop. Some of us need to repent, we need to stop calling in sick with God. We need to pray and ask God, Where do you want me to go? What do you want me to do? and the even better question who do you want me to serve? For those of you without a job, work for God because his pay is out of this world.
Blessings in the name of Christ.
taken from https://heraldinthewilderness.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/will-a-man-rob-god/