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The Blessing that Doesn't Break You
Are you working hard, or white-knuckling the outcome?
Monday’s proverb gave us diligent hands that produce wealth. Today’s gives us a blessing that comes with no sorrow attached. Solomon isn’t contradicting himself. Diligence is what a man does, but blessing is what only God can add. Learn how to hold both without being crushed by either.
Wisdom is never a formula we can run without God, which is why Proverbs begins with the fear of the Lord. Diligence without that fear becomes anxious striving. Diligence with it becomes faithful work resting in a bigger promise. The exhausting, joyless…
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