Children, what’s the hardest or easiest work you have done till date? During my school and college life I was fond of Proverbs 14 : 23 which say like this “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.” That is a warning to those of us who make our living only by speaking. I was and even now am struck with how much Proverbs has to say about hard work.
In our day to day life, we face a choice of taking one of the two ways. You can go the easy and trouble-free way or the hard or inflexible way. The easy way is staying on bed and saying it doesn’t matter whether I work today or not, or it doesn’t matter even if I get up early in the morning hours to study my subjects. Such a way as this, because of its vague foresight and passion, is the way to wasted minutes, hours, days and wasted lives.
In the midst of this event, Mr. Satan (some would remember the VBS song of Mr. Satan) will say to us, “Cheat if you have the caliber, cut some ethical corners, take it easy, don’t work so hard and finally slow down, my dude.” And here’s the hard way. It is the way of getting up early as possible and investing the best of your time for studies, only after reading your Bible and prayer. It is the venture of working with your heart, mind and soul. It is a long range goal setting, future orientation, foresight, preparation, doing what you are told and then doing what needs to be done even if you are not told. The hard road which appears to be so difficult is ultimately the road of success, blessing, fulfillment and happiness. It is the road that leads you to the top.
Running parallel with this thought, sometimes we think that only by solving the past 10 years Question papers handed over by the (N) & (M) Tutorial’s and being under their umbrella will be enough to take us to the next phase of our academic life. Instead on leaning on our God and his power, we lean on those who say that they can support us with their limited knowledge. Come on, wake up my children, for the fountain of wisdom and source of knowledge who is our Lord should not be left behind.
Do you want to know the tongue in cheek thing between the easy road and the hard road? The easy road looks easy but once you get on it, it turns into the hard road. And the hard road looks hard but once you do the hard thing in life, it turns out to be the easy thing. You will find God on the hard road and not with the couch potatoes. He is calling all of us to the hard road. Get up my dear students as if you are not going to get this chance again in your lifetime to shine, to rise, to prove your mettle and in the name of God do it!
In our day to day life, we face a choice of taking one of the two ways. You can go the easy and trouble-free way or the hard or inflexible way. The easy way is staying on bed and saying it doesn’t matter whether I work today or not, or it doesn’t matter even if I get up early in the morning hours to study my subjects. Such a way as this, because of its vague foresight and passion, is the way to wasted minutes, hours, days and wasted lives.
In the midst of this event, Mr. Satan (some would remember the VBS song of Mr. Satan) will say to us, “Cheat if you have the caliber, cut some ethical corners, take it easy, don’t work so hard and finally slow down, my dude.” And here’s the hard way. It is the way of getting up early as possible and investing the best of your time for studies, only after reading your Bible and prayer. It is the venture of working with your heart, mind and soul. It is a long range goal setting, future orientation, foresight, preparation, doing what you are told and then doing what needs to be done even if you are not told. The hard road which appears to be so difficult is ultimately the road of success, blessing, fulfillment and happiness. It is the road that leads you to the top.
Running parallel with this thought, sometimes we think that only by solving the past 10 years Question papers handed over by the (N) & (M) Tutorial’s and being under their umbrella will be enough to take us to the next phase of our academic life. Instead on leaning on our God and his power, we lean on those who say that they can support us with their limited knowledge. Come on, wake up my children, for the fountain of wisdom and source of knowledge who is our Lord should not be left behind.
Do you want to know the tongue in cheek thing between the easy road and the hard road? The easy road looks easy but once you get on it, it turns into the hard road. And the hard road looks hard but once you do the hard thing in life, it turns out to be the easy thing. You will find God on the hard road and not with the couch potatoes. He is calling all of us to the hard road. Get up my dear students as if you are not going to get this chance again in your lifetime to shine, to rise, to prove your mettle and in the name of God do it!
