Being hard working is an admirable trait so we always attach sure success to it. But often we see a different thing in real life. Hard work often brings us sickly retirement, especially if you're a workaholic who squanders heath in exchange for good corporate performance. To please the boss and beat everybody else in the competition. Yeah you may have a handsome retirement pension after, but often about half of it (if not all) goes to medical bills and maintenance.
Overstress and an unhealthy lifestyle (deadly results of over working and beating deadlines) are killing you softly. You know that, of course, but you seldom pay serious attention while you feel okay. While you're young. It's a trap everyone is aware of but willingly falls victim to anyway. In the end, you see your life melting away as you suffer on your sickbed, realizing you've merely been eating the mud in the garden you've been tilling all your life, not eating the fruit of your labor.
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You don't realize it because your pay looks big. Well, it's big only in comparison with what your fellow employees (or managers) get. And high position tends to distort your idea of your pay and kinda makes it bigger than it is. Actually, you don't know what you've been missing--or what you're being deprived of. That "big" pay keeps you from seeing your real worth.
I know. The bible says, "All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty," [Proverbs 14.23] but that's precisely my point. The promises that diligent employment is supposed to bring are often all mere talk, so everything comes to poverty in the end. And many have been its victims. I'm sure you will disagree and say your employment has been most rewarding and fruitful financially. Okay. And I hope you're in tiptop health condition, too, free of any maintenance medicines and illnesses.
Hard work should go with wisdom so we can eat the fruit of our labor (bring a profit) and not be rewarded with mere talk. Anything contrary is foolishness yielding folly as its fruit. "The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields folly," says the following verse. That hard work guided by wisdom brings wealth, though it's not always material wealth. Somewhere the passage talks about being rewarded a secure fortress from the Lord. "Whoever fears the Lord has a secure fortress, and for their children it will be a refuge." When you enjoy this, you're eating the fruit of your labor.
Blessed are all who fear the Lord,Jacob got the whole point. For years he worked for Laban but it was all mere talk that ended up in poverty. Then he began to play with the idea of having his own business. With wisdom, he was able to have his own herd and finally enjoyed the fruit of his own labor since then. Yeah, he used a little trick to outdo Laban, but Laban had been cheating on him for years.
who walk in obedience to him.
2 You will eat the fruit of your labor;
blessings and prosperity will be yours.
3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like olive shoots
around your table.
4 Yes, this will be the blessing
for the man who fears the Lord. [Psalm 128]
And actually, his latter labor was with God's wisdom, enabling him to eat the fruit of his labor finally. Jacob told Laban's children:
6 You know that I’ve worked for your father with all my strength, 7 yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me. 8 If he said, ‘The speckled ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, ‘The streaked ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked young. 9 So God has taken away your father’s livestock and has given them to me. [Genesis 31]
