Morning Musings-Earn Your Keep

  Morning Musings with the boys at breakfast...




There are warnings here in 2 Thessalonians 3:6-18 about being idle.  Over the few years of your lives, my sons, you've heard me tell you if "you aren't going to work, you aren't going to eat".  This has been in regard to the general household chores about the home that need to be done.  Family members should not have to be paid in dollars and cents but as part of the family, tend to the various tasks that need to be done for the good and benefit of one and all: dishes; sweeping; mopping and the like.  And all this whether you are a boy or a girl.  One must learn that with privilege, responsibility also comes; there are two sides to a coin.  You've heard me say that one too.

So we have here the exhortation to the Thessalonians, most of whom were likely adults, "to settle down and earn the bread they eat" and this in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Do not "tire of doing what is right."   

The Thessalonians were well aware that Paul, Silas and Timothy also earned their keep and did not ask them to provide for them.  They worked hard and didn't take any 'freebies".  This was the example Paul asked them to follow.  

Paul "walked the talk".  Let us each remember to be diligent and to earn our keep.

                                                               ~ERC  2016~