Produce & Bless

The prevailing attitude going around these days has stolen something from us. It seems we have been inundated with the idea of what we can get or what we want until it seems natural and normal. This attitude makes life something less and something weaker than it was meant to be.
What we must do (and were meant to do) is to produce something with our lives. We have strengths and abilities and loves and gifts and when we live them out, we become more of who we are. Imagine what our world could be like if we were all producing all we could. What if we were always creating value? We may feel like we have lost much of what we had or at least have less capacity to live because of an economic downturn. But the real wealth of this world, endowed by God, is the capacity of the people he has made. There are innumerable ways that we can create value: producing products that we need to live, transporting it, serving, encouraging, teaching, mentoring, serving, creating something, growing food - in fact, if you don't feel like you produce much in what you do, grow a garden and give some food away. For that is what the production is always for in God's economy: we produce in order to bless somebody with it. We don't produce to have more or be better than someone else. We produce to improve life and so show the love of God and open a heart or two to the news that God has a good plan for everyone.
"Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as unto the Lord."
"Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain."