How much of your life does your work consume? Quite a bit? Then you get your paycheck. How much of that is consumed by bills (blah!) and family and recreation (yay!)? Have you ever wondered, “What is all of this for?”
Tie the following two verses together. In Ephesians 4:28, Christians are instructed, “Let him labor, working with his hands what is good…” Why work? The rest of the verse says, “…that he may have something to give him who has need.” I work to “have” so that I can “give.” Is that a different way of thinking about why you work?
Connect that with why God blesses His children in 2 Corinthians 9:8. When we give to God “bountifully” and “cheerfully” (9:6-7), “God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance…” Why does God want to give us “an abundance”? Finish the verse: “…for every good work.” Is that a different way of thinking about why God blesses you with money and things? Think about it.