Work makes an enormous impact on appetite. Exerting yourself causes your body to use and need fuel. The same is true of our spiritual beings—as we labor in God’s harvest field of human need, our appetite for spiritual things expands and matures. Harry Truman said, “I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.”


One reason some fail to grow spiritually is because their spiritual appetite has been adversely affected by inactivity. Edward Stanley said, “Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” Idleness breeds disease—physically and spiritually. Move forward, exert yourself through prayer, study God’s Word and exercise your spiritual muscles by reaching out in service to others. Work creates hunger. When we make a demand on God’s supply of the Spirit by reaching out to others—He meets us at the point of our need, allowing His ability to work though our lives.


Jesus gave two commandments (Mark 12:30): love God with your whole being and love your neighbor as yourself. The good life is found in keeping these commandments. It takes effort but the benefits we derive from serving God and helping others, far exceed the sacrifices we make. God rewards His workers with peace and joy and contentment far beyond our natural ability to comprehend. Twenty-first century people are on the go and energetic. But activity without purpose is pointless.

Thomas Alva Edison said, “Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” Do something that matters. Frederick Buechner wrote: "Each of us needs to discover what makes him or her most joyful, most alive, for this is the true battle of life - to become fully human, and this is the battle we all can win because this is the battle that God wants us to win." God wants each of us to find this life, to live deliberately, to live consciously, as sons and daughters of God, and to achieve that joyful, abundant life.

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