We all have those hand full of scriptures that are guiding stars for us.
We stay faithful to them because we vibe with them and usually early on in our journey.
For me it was to guard your heart above all things for out of it flow the issues of life.
There are a few more but this is one that meant a lot when I got saved.
I knew a man who was self employed. He wanted to make the leap to being a business owner. In the first model (self employed) you work and you make money directly from what is done. In the second model (business owner) you pay someone to do the work and you make money off of what is done. When the self employed stops working the money stops coming in and when the business owner takes a week or two off they come back to something that kept on working.
This man was trying to train people to do a very specialized work. He would train someone (he tried it just a couple of times) and then they left him to start their own thing. He became discouraged and stopped doing that.
He also didn't care for marketing though he had a sign out front of his house promoting his services.
I spoke to him years after he had these situation.
I told him that I was training some people to run by business for me so that I could be business owner.
His reply was surprising. Though he would talk for days about the bible his words were "oh you want to sew where you did not reap" as though having employees was a bad thing. It didn't sit well with me and I later realized that he was actually quoting the unfaithful servant.
When we talked about marketing he told me something to the effect that marketing does not work and that God will bring you everything you need.
The first I recognized as foolish while the second got past me and sounded legit to my young entrepreneurial ears. The second caused me a lot of difficulty.
When you struggle there are indeed some things that you need to quit while there are some that require you to persevere to show yourself worthy of them. "Get understanding though it costs you everything" comes to mind.
When you struggle and quit you can actually become so hard hearted that you quote someone clearly labeled as unfaithful and you could go so far to quote the Devil himself as a reliable source for your reasoning.
Don't do either but guard your heart. An unguarded heart grows cold and hard to the thoughts of God and even common sense among men.
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