all our labor

Ecclesiastes 3:9-13, "What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. he hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God."



God created man in His own image, and for five days prior to that He labored to prepare this world for His prized creation. The practice of God to labor, has been instilled into us after His image. These verses tell us that God gives men labor to be exercised in. The truth is that God has us working on things, while He is working on us. Any great work has a process to it. I must prepare each step along the way so that I can reach the finished product, and some steps take longer to finish than others, but each one is important. You may view your life in the same way. God is doing a work in you, you cannot know the work from beginning to end, but you can know what God wants you to do (labor in) right now so that He can make your life beautiful in His time. Sometimes we get so worried about the future that we cannot see what God is doing right now in our lives. let me challenge you that God will take care of the future, what He wants is for you to do the labor that He has laid before you right now, enjoy what He has given you right now, it is God's gift to you. Remember what Jesus said, in Matthew 6:34 "take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

The obvious context of these verses is that of time. consider today that when God's time is full for something it is a beautiful thing for it to happen. It is beautiful when the grain comes up through the ground casting its lush green hue over the field, but it is also beautiful when it has reached maturity and is golden and waving. Still yet it is a beautiful thing to see the grain in the barn. Things done before there time though loose the beauty that God intended for them. We must always wait on the timing of the Lord in our lives so that we might also be beautiful before Him.