Dear Beloved,
Diligence means doing a job assigned to you with your whole heart, quickly, skillfully and according to the ethics of the job. Do you work just to earn salary or to make an impact? How about working for the sake of providing for yourself and your family with the basic essentials of life - food, clothing, shelter...! Yes, it is vital to achieve all of these... but it is more vital to work with regard to your relationship with God.
If God is not considered first in all what we are doing, we will just be struggling to survive. Not only that, we will be working to be seen (that is, doing eye service), stealing from the employer, absconding from work, being punctual to work only when our employer or immediate boss is in town, inciting other workers against the constituted authority, indulge in giving and receiving bribes, gossipping about and so on.
No, that is not the kind of diligence our God and employers expect from us. Know it that God is everywhere and sees everything we do. He is Omnipresent. Don't behave any how you what in whatever task you find yourself doing, because we are first of all accountable to God and then to our employer.
In the Book of Ecclesiastes 9:10, we were told to do whatever our hand finds to do with all our might and 2 Peter 3:14(NIV) says, therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless;
Remain Blessed,
Your beloved sister,
Ifeoma
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