Back to: The Banquet (Wisdom Devotional)
What Is Fruitfulness?
- Fruitful activity multiplies or adds to what’s already there, producing more of something.
- Everything in creation is embedded in the law of fruitfulness ( Multiplying or adding to) .
- Adam and Eve are given two specific kinds of work in Genesis 2:15-20, gardening (a kind of physical work) and giving names to the animals (a kind of cultural/scientific/intellectual work).
- Both are creative enterprises that give specific activities to people created in the image of the Creator.
- By growing things and developing culture, we are indeed fruitful. We bring forth the resources needed to support a growing population and to increase the productivity of creation.
- We develop the means to fill, yet not overfill.
Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth’ ” (Gen. 1:28). God could have created everything imaginable and filled the earth himself. But he chose to create humanity to work alongside him to actualize the universe’s potential, to participate in God’s own work. It is remarkable that God trusts us to carry out this amazing task of building on the good earth he has given us.
Fruitfulness Diagram
Everything is created with the ability to multiply- bear fruit
Useful Facts About Working
- It starts with a vision, then a goal, then implementation. The implementation is the hard work.
- Goals are only ever achievable through hard work.
- Think of new years resolutions. Its easy to have the thought or vision but the implementing is the deciding factor in whether we achieve our goal or not.
- Work pays dividends- A return (Investment) You will never work for nothing – Proverbs 14:23 ‘ in all labor there is profit but mere talk only leads to poverty.
- We were not created to be unproductive- our mind and body begins to break/malfunction when we are not working ( hence depression, poverty, hopelessness etc) Proverbs 10:4
- Solomon is saying while it pays to work a diligent worker receives a higher interest- Trusted with greater tasks and responsibilities.
The Blueprint of Success
Dropped out of college. introduced to Steve Wozniak. Later on, the duo co-founded Apple.
They used to work for hours with digital chips. It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight billionaire.
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He quit his job as a Vice President at a Wall Street firm and founded Amazon to make it easy for people to buy books online.
Despite the resistance Bezos’s determination helped him to raise the necessary funds and turn Amazon into a successful company.
(Facebook)
Mark developed an interest in computer programming at the age of twelve. Ideas in Zuckerberg’s dorm room began his success.
Mark Zuckerberg dropped out from college & turned Facebook into a billion-dollar company before the age of thirty.
(Microsoft)
He was a tech-obsessed 13-year-old student. He spent as much time as he could learning about computers, hacking and coding.
He and a school friend named Paul Allen bonded over their love of technology They would later co-found Microsoft.
If God cannot multiply through you, you are useless to Him.
