The Devotional - A Look at the Book #600

The Devotional - A Look at the Book #600

by Jesse Abel

What Papa “J” has to say! #21

I must be doing something wrong… I have retired twice and I am still working. Nah! I like to retire… so I am working in order to… do it again.

The Devotional

Ever drive by places like the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and see the hundreds of ships that are no longer used by out Nation’s Navy. All of them retired from service because technology has passed these vessels over. Well, okay I can muster up a thought in favor of technology, but we are today in the midst of a severe economic process that is stripping the United States from it’s position of power, freedom and happiness. I agree this is not technology’s fault or the moth-balled fleet of old ships used here as an example. There are… if you care to look, tons of used resources within our land of the free that would put people to work. Taking what is old and making it new again, is what we do daily in real estate. A construction company buys an old home, guts it, remakes it and resells it. Bureaucrats of government call for change, but the only change we see is the heavy ball and chain of a broken economy and a crumbling society. Either; We the People will lead the charge of rescue… or another country will come in and gut what we have remaining and remake our land in their image and likeness. Proverbs 24:23-34.

ECCLESIASTES 4

Ecclesiastes 4:4-8 – One man’s ability is another man’s jealousy, we see this daily in the work place and this is an obstacle in life. Sometimes it is entertaining as some of us find laughter in another person’s error. Sometimes it is sad when that same error produces harm. Our mood swings with the wind and we seldom find fault with our pride.

Then within that little organization there is the one, maybe two employees who are really not capable of much more than collecting, consuming and collapsing. They collect the largest paycheck, consume the profits by misappropriating funds and equipment and collapse in health before their time and place additional burdens on the rest of employment.

Are these the only conditions of life in the work place? No not only in the work place but also these conditions are found in our homes. Thus this is a full circle vanity that is in our everyday life. By our own selfish motivations and moods, without regard to those around us who are doing the same. Solomon says; step back from this and in the quietness of the moment, make some changes, for what good is it with both hands filled with toil that even the wind around your hands has no place to go. Life under these conditions is a BIG ZERO.