By Grace Sweeney
We’re talking about diligence this month. Here are some key Bible verses that talk about this. I’d advise you to study and meditate on these for the next week. Let God speak to you and show you how you can grow in this area.
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. (Proverbs 13:4)
Those who work hard at something will be rewarded, while those who are not diligent, even though they say they want it, get nothing.
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. (Galations 6:9)
“If we do not give up.” That is the core message of diligence: perseverance. This verse tells us that if we don’t give up, we will reap good things, and we all want good things, right? Working hard and getting rewarded is not just an Earthly reality, it’s a Heavenly one.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might. (Ecclesiastes 9:10a)
Diligence means working at something as hard as you can, not slacking off. Doing it with all your might. This is one of my favorite verses on diligence and hard work.
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. (Proverbs 6:6-8)
Ants doesn’t have someone making them do things, but they do them anyway. This picture is a great example to us in diligence, doing things even when we weren’t asked to (or don’t want to), because we know we will be rewarded later.
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men. (Colossians 3:23)
This is a big one right here. If we strive to work for the Lord and not for other people, we will be diligent in all we do because we want to serve Him well.
Hymn:
Here’s a hymn about having diligence in serving Christ—which is the most important area of all to have diligence in!
More Diligence Give Me: by F. E. Belden
More diligence give me;
Swift flieth the day,
Each moment some lost one
Is passing away;
How can I be idle,
Christ knowing so well?
More diligence give me,
Love's story to tell.
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