Working

After this we see the Lord declaring that He "must be about His Father's business." The Lord Jesus was a working young man. And He worked hard. (John 9:4.) He said "Are there not twelve hours in the day?" John 11:9. And He lived that! We are to be working too; God has made it that way. "Occupy till I come." Our day of rest and reign will come shortly in glory, but it is not now on this earth. Here we are to study to work with our own hands and do our own business and all should be done heartily as unto the Lord and not unto men. The lazy and slothful will have a miserable life overgrown with nettles, and a big bonfire at the judgment seat of Christ (1 Cor. 3:15.) "In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury [poverty]." Prov. 14:23.