DILIGENCE - KEY TO EMINENCE

SCRIPTURE: “I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks. I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night” – Genesis 31:38-39 (NIV)
 
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Nothing can be glorious until somebody is serious and nothing can work out until it is worked at.
 
Diligence can be defined as a careful and persistent work. It has been confirmed that the way of diligence is the way to eminence.
 
Beloved, if prominence is your desire, then you must delete laziness from your mentality and eliminate indolence from your activity. Some people approach their daily activities drowsily. Such persons are the first to be sacked from their jobs when there is a need to shed (downsize) staff in their offices.
 
Note this: the full deployment of energy is key to achievement of destiny. That is, if you must achieve destiny, you must deploy energy. And the level of energy you deploy per time determines the weight of result you achieve.  Also note that for anything to give you what it contains, you must give it what it takes either in ministry, business or academics etc. It is input that determines output and outcome. 
 
The truth is, your qualification to the next level is tied to your attitude to work and the manner with which you work. Sometime ago, I heard someone say “those who take things casual end up as casualties”. Nothing can be glorious until somebody is serious and nothing can work out until it is worked at.
 
Diligence today equals eminence tomorrow and indolence today births nonentities tomorrow.
 
Beloved, if eminence is your crave then, diligence must be your drive.
 
Remember this: Nothing can be glorious until somebody is serious and nothing can work out until it is worked at.
 
ASSIGNMENT(S): 
1. Consciously resist the spirit of laziness and indolence to work 
2. Decide to be diligent and embrace hard work because hard work does not kill.
 
PRAYER: LORD, deliver me from the spirit of laziness, lethargy and indolence. I receive the grace O LORD to be diligent in the delivery of my duties in Jesus’ Name. 
 
FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: WORKPLACE AND CAREER WISDOM (PART 2)
 
QUOTE: Your work determines your worth. Culled from 30 SECRETS TO THE TOP by Dr Paul Enenche.
 
DAILY READING: Genesis 30:1-31:16, Matthew 10:1-23, Psalm 12:1-8, Proverbs 3:13-15