True Labours In God

Apostle Grace Lubega

2 Thessalonians 3:11(KJV);  For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

It is possible to be very physically busy and yet so spiritually idle. This is a busybody.

Busy bodies are spiritually troubled. Martha is an example of a Christian in this state. She was bustling all over the house in her desire to serve Christ whom she had invited as a guest to her home. In contrast, her sister Mary was calmly sitting at the feet of Jesus listening to the Word. When Martha complained, the Lord told her, ‘Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things…’(Luke 10:41).

In all that Martha did, she was obeying the Mosaic law. Mary on the other hand was breaking the law because the law did not allow a woman to sit at the feet of a Rabbi during the feast of Purim. However, Christ praised Mary and not Martha. Martha’s actions did not provoke approval from God because our righteousness is as filthy rags before him.

Christ is the fulfilment of the law. He is our righteousness. He has taken away the law and given us grace.

A busy body will try to build things that Christ seeks to break because he or she has not understood what the true labours in the faith are. As such, they labour in the Lord without the manifestation of the fruit of their labours.

This is the beginning of transgression because the Bible says that if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor (Galatians 2:18).

2 John 2:8-9 says, ‘Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.’

When a man builds what Christ has broken [the law], he lives a life void of the power of God. ‘He hath not God.’

Labouring in God will never be about how much you do physically but how yielded your spirit is to His Word.

This is how you make full proof of your ministry (2 Timothy 4:5). This is how to truly render accountability to heaven. This is how you do not lose the things that you have worked for. This is how you receive a full reward.

FURTHER STUDY: Luke 10:38-41, Galatians 2:18

GOLDEN NUGGET:

Labouring in God will never be about how much you do physically but how yielded your spirit is to His Word. This is how you make full proof of your ministry. This is how to truly render accountability to heaven. This is how you do not lose the things that you have worked for. This is how you receive a full reward.

PRAYER: Loving Father, it is a great and immense privilege to serve you. A man can have no better master than the creator of the universe. I serve in wisdom, with an understanding of the true labours in the gospel. My spirit is alive to your instruction. Even as I labour, I believe that it is your grace that labours through me. My reward is complete and my fruit abides forever. In Jesus’ name, Amen.