“In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.” (Proverbs 14:23, ESV) Making plans before beginning any venture is truly wise. Fools do rush in without a plan, without advise, and without counting the cost. But there comes a time when we must quit talking about working and actually work. Planning […]
Category Archives: Heir Conditioning
Head for the Exit! Heir Conditioning 024
“Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.” (Proverbs 14:7) It has been well said that you will be a reflection of the five people you spend the majority of your time with. Who do you spend your time with? If you roll with the pigs you are […]
Trivial Pursuits. Heir Conditioning 023
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense. (Proverbs 12:11) Of course this was written in an area and time when agriculture was by far the most common means of making a living. Today I can say “If you are a farmer, farm! If you are […]
“Later” Heir Conditioning 022
How many people do you know who live paycheck to paycheck? One unexpected bill, or a few days off work, and they are in a financial free-fall. Are you living life on the jagged edge financially? For most people in this situation the thing that pushed them to the edge of disaster was not the […]
Are You Worth It? Heir Conditioning 021
One reason many are unemployed or are in jobs they absolutely hate is that they do not have marketable skills and refuse to develop any. To be paid for your labor you must be worth much more than the cost to hire you. Whoever hires an employee pays more than the take home pay and […]
Enough? Heir Conditioning 020
One of the traps of our digital age is the sheer volume of messages we see telling us how unsatisfied we should feel with our current situation in life. Look how happy those people are. A wise person knows those posts and images are not the full story. A wise person knows what photo editing […]
8 hour?s pay for How much work? Heir Conditioning 019
Yes, the same verses from yesterday, bit with a different unit of measurement. “You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.” (Deuteronomy 25:14 ESV) Consider that you have a job selling your time to an employer. Your price is $15 per hour of work. When you sell […]
A Pound is a Pound! Heir Conditioning 018
“You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.” (Deuteronomy 25:14 ESV) Imagine that you have a side business selling homemade spaghetti sauce. Your price is $4 per quart jar of sauce. When you sell your jar of sauce, how much money do you expect? I know the […]
Work is not a Curse. Heir Conditioning 017
Many people who know anything about the Bible see work as part of the curse that God pronounced on creation as a result of Adam’s sin. “And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not […]
?You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can?t fool God! Heir Conditioning 016
If you are not employed (or not self employed), if you are not doing something useful to pay your own expenses (or do not manage your household responsibilities diligently, as a non-breadwinner) because you don’t want to, you are probably pretty good at making up excuses for why you cannot work, or why you cannot […]