Categories: THE WORD, Weekly Messages

2018.05.09 Wednesday Message

When You Take Action, Do It Well

Proverbs 4:25-26

Let your eyes look straight ahead;

   fix your gaze directly before you.

Give careful thought to the paths for your feet

   and be steadfast in all your ways.

People live with overflowing hopes and wishes.

Hopes and wishes come when the time comes.
This is the case for your hopes as well as the hopes given by God and the Holy Spirit.

If you wish for something, that hope will surely be fulfilled.
But, you must prepare and be ready for it, and the time must also come for that hope to arrive.

Things have to be prepared and ready both on the earth as well as in Heaven.
Only then will you gain them.

However, the shortcoming of human beings is that

  1. even though they have prepared and readied themselves, they don’t recognize it even though ‘that day’ has come in reality and that
  2. they are unable to take action properly.

 

When you take action, do it well

In order to take action properly, you have to do it right away.
In order to take action properly, you need to have an earnest heart.
You must do it with all your heart, will, and life.

The time when you are taking action is always the issue.
At the time you are doing it, if you take action in a wrong way, you will just end up staring at your work and using things according to what you have done until you re-do them properly.

When you take action, you need a lot of knowledge and wisdom.
In addition, you require the Lord, God, and the Holy Spirit.

When taking action, you need adequate tools in order to do things properly.

When taking action on your own, you need everything—your mind, thoughts, wisdom, etc.

Every time you take action, take action with sufficient knowledge.
Clearly know God and take action with sufficient knowledge because you are taking action before God.

When taking action with the Lord, you need to first receive the instructions clearly and properly and then carry out the work.

 

Do it like you are making an artwork

Whatever work you do, you need to make it into an artwork. Then it will be much more beautiful, stunning, and striking for a lifetime.
In this way, when you develop yourself, you need to also make yourself into an artwork. Then you will be valuable, beautiful, and mysterious.

You must truly do well before the Lord.
You should not take action without knowing his heart.
Even though people want to work with the Lord, work with God, and work according to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they don’t know how to put their lives on the line and work in a truly beautiful and wonderful way.

People just look superficially and do things in an ordinary way.
If they act like they are working on an artwork, it will turn out beautiful and wonderful, but they aren’t able to live their lives in that way.

With all your heart, will, and life, you need to make it more beautiful, wonderful, magnificent, and mysterious.
In order to do that, you need to put in more hard work and effort and be more anxious as you do it. Otherwise you can never make it happen.

If you learn and master work, things are easy, fun, and full of hope.
You will be filled with the joy, hope, and happiness like the heart of an artist who makes an artwork.

 

Do things in a way that pleases God’s heart

God is always with us, and He always gives the design and carries out His work.

God always watches to see if we are taking action with God’s design or if we are taking action according to our own inclinations.

Since God is invisible and people find it faster to do things with their own thoughts, they don’t discuss with Him even though He is next to them.

To act with God’s design, you need to become one in heart with God, receive the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and do it with the Lord.
If you just do it according to your own thoughts, God, the Holy Spirit, and the Lord won’t be pleased with the outcome.

It is not easy to do everything in ways that are pleasing to Their hearts.
Just like how a national athlete earns a medal by exhibiting the skills he gained through training and hard work, we need to do things in the same way. Only then will the work we do be ideal.

When you take action, do it well.

Take action properly and well.

Take action properly, correctly, and well.

When looking at things, look at them piercingly. Don’t look at them carelessly, but look at them completely in detail. You need to take action like this!

 

People truly live in ignorance

Even though they think about many things in order to fulfill their hopes, they don’t know that God is the one who can fulfill their hopes.

You need to pray and polish/improve all the various things that you need to polish/improve. Whether it’s playing soccer, playing volleyball, or playing table tennis, you can only do it if you know how.

If you don’t know how to do it, you cannot do it.
If you don’t know how to do it, then you will end at the level of being unable to do it.
If you know how to do it, then you will work in the world of knowledge, build up your merits, and live gaining what you can gain from God.

And now! when you take action in reality before God, you must:

-take action completely

-take action with love

-take action in a fun and joyful way

-take action without misunderstanding

 

Work is a blessing and a joy

When you work, you shouldn’t just work.

As you work, you can do two kinds of work:  be joyful and sing praises and work harmoniously.

If you only work, it is boring, difficult, and hard.
You need to take action with joy and happiness, while having fun.
Also, the time of work is the time that enables you to exist.

As you work, you can realize, think, scrutinize many things in creation and see them directly, and also separate and see your soul and spirit, joints and marrow.

 

Perceive things spiritually

You have to look at people spiritually. Then they will be more beautiful, mysterious, and majestic.

You have to also look at the spiritual world up to that level. Then you will be happy and joyful, you will feel pleasure in your heart and soul, and you will come to like it and be moved with gratitude.

If you look physically, things seem ordinary.

Some things seem spiritual and divine even when they are looked at physically, but to see them that way, you have to penetrate into the objects and see them clearly.

 

Breath is prayer

This is the spiritual interpretation.

God resolved various problems for me through prayer.
To me, prayer is like an elephant wrapping its trunk around a large snake.
When unexpected things happened, I resolved them through prayer.
The Trinity taught me that just prayer was enough.

You must pray.
If not, you will wrestle with prayer.

Some things work by praying throughout your daily life, but you should also train and raise your spirituality by praying in the predawn.
You have to pray both day and night.

Prayer is conversation with God, the Holy Spirit, and the Lord.
Prayer is life and power. Diseases can also be healed through prayer.
If you pray, God will work upon you.
God will grant your wishes. However, you should take action responsibly.

Closing remarks

Take action well when it is time to take action. Take action with wisdom, knowledge, and God’s design. Then those who see it will consider it to be beautiful, majestic, and mysterious.

Truly do well when you take action. Let’s take action in an awesome way like creating artwork!