The Big Rocks of Life: Pt. 2 — A ‘Time With God’ Audio Devotion

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Good morning.

I hope you’re having a great day, and we want to make it greater by spending some time with God together, opening the Bible, reading what it says, listening to how God is speaking to us through the Bible, and then applying it to our lives. We’re spending time all this week talking about the big rocks of life.

And how there are some things in your life that you need to put into your way of living first, and then fit the other things of life around them. And if you fail to do that, then the other things of life tend to squeeze these things out, and your life is so much poorer because these are the really important things.

They may not always be the urgent things, and that’s why they get squeezed out, but they are the important things. It’s really important to put these things in place first in your life and fit the other things of life around them.

Yesterday we saw our first big rock for life is spending time with God. He’s the one who made us. He designed us, and our lives are never right if he’s not in the center of them.

The second big rock in life is work.

Work – you might think, well, that doesn’t seem like a very spiritual thing to put in there, but listen to what the Bible says about work in Proverbs chapter 6 starting in verse 6.

It says, go to the ant, O sluggard; Consider her ways and be wise. Without having any chief officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber and want like an armed man.

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The Bible says that one of the big rocks in your life is work. It’s so much a part of life. In fact, when it talks about us working, it gives us the example of God who in 6 days created the world and then rested.

This is the pattern God has given us. Work hard. Earn what you need for your living and to provide for your family. Earn what you need to – give to what God calls you to give to in your life. But don’t be lazy.

Work and such a tendency in our entertainment-driven culture to just sit there and read another chapter, pick up another magazine, watch the next episode on Netflix or play the next round of your computer game and to just make that your way of life and not do the things that need to be done.

But here’s what the apostle Paul says when he writes to the Thessalonian Christians. He says:

You yourselves know how you ought to imitate us because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat one’s bread without paying for it. But with toil and labor we worked night and day that we might not be a burden to any of you. It was not because we do not have the right. But to give you in ourselves an example to imitate, for even when we were with you, we would give you this command. If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

Now certainly there are people that can’t work because of physical reasons or other reasons in their life, and that’s a different matter. But if someone is not willing to work and is just being lazy and idle, then they are leaving out one of the big rocks of life. Learn to work hard, rest when it’s right, and work when it’s time.

I’m John North.

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