Jesus taught his fishermen-disciples, that man
rises by effort.
He didn't fill the boat with fishes after they had toiled and caught nothing. He said to them to launch out into the deep for a haul.. they had to
WORK.
He then blessed their
WORK with success.
Like this:
Against The Tide. - May 7
The oarsman, trusting in Me, does not lean on his oars and drift with the tide, trusting to the current.
Nay, more often - once I have shown The Way - it is
against the tide you must direct all your effort. And even when difficulties come, it is by
your effort that they will be surmounted. But always strength (the Force) and the Joy in the doing you can have through Me.
My fisherman-disciples did not find the fishes ready on the shore in their nets. I take man's effort and bless that. I require man's
effort - he
needs My blessing. This
partnership it is that means success.
http://jahtruth.net/yodas.htm
It is The Way it was then and it is the way it still is, now today.
You have to
WORK because that is part of the deal.
As Paul -
Philippians
2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
2:10 That at the name of the Saviour every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth;
2:11 And [that] every tongue should confess that Christ Jesus [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence,
WORK out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
2:13 For it is God Which
worketh in you both to will and to do of [His] good pleasure.
