Lena Journals to Proverbs 11 Today

This person works well and receives his wage. He accepts the wage due him in whatever he is doing. If he studies hard for a test, he receives the wage of a better grade than had he not studied. If we works honestly, he receives what is honest in his line of work, his culture, and in his day.
Since life is not about wealth, success, storing and getting more things, or even human happiness, one must decide what living is now about and live accordingly. Life is about eternity, how we invest now will be how we spend it then.
There is a blessing and favor upon those who choose godly living no matter how hard of how anti cultural this way of living is. It costs one his life to not live like the world is saying is ok to live. The cost is in the price we pay in ridicule, discomfort, contest, reputation, etc for choosing what is truly godly and good!
Why would anyone belittle anyone else? Do they not understand who people are? The apples of God’s eye? The very children of His loins and core of His heart?
Usually when someone puts someone else down it is to exalt his own person. “I exalt me” does not go over well with the Lord. That type of behavior is a violation of the commandment of God and one can expect no blessings there!
We do not have to give to or help every person, in every situation. At times a lesson is being learned and the help prolongs the lesson from being taught. If we give in to the pressure of supposed goodness at times we learn the lesson meant for another. One must really listen to the spirit of the Lord leading him and not the soul cry for the person’s self chosen circumstances.
We reap what we sow.
Sow faith, reap faith. Faith must be the substance of every godly action or else the action may merely be a good action, rather than a godly one.
Living righteously does not mean being good. It means living how God deems is right in His power and by His might. He may ask me to do something beyond my own abilities; I live by faith, and can obey Him by faith, in His strength to do what it is He has asked me to do. These are not just good things I think are good, they are God things He wants done. I don’t live good, waiting for God to put a stamp of approval on what I’ve decided to do. I live asking Him what He wants me to do that would bless Him and that I believe for the goodness to accomplish and the will to increase for. That action, is a blessed action. He blesses what He’s asked me to do, He blesses what it is I’m doing to bless Him, and serve and love and represent Him in.
True representation is when I do what someone else wants. I help, by serving them in the manner that would serve them. I become them, an extension of their will, a helper of their plan. Is that not what people who work for other people do? They bear the name of the company they work for. People always ask one another “So, who do you work for?”
They don’t usually ask, “So who allows you to be who you are, as you are without requested change, and who pays you to give them all of your wonderful ideas, whatever you dream up, each and everyday, all day long?” We are usually paid to learn how to represent, and bring increase to another’s work, or ideas that they’d like to see work and they need more hands and feet for the brain of the work they believe God has given them to steward. There are not enough of them to do the big idea they have. It’d be detrimental to their dream to listen to other ways everyday that take them way off of the focus, if the focus has already been decided.
We are here to promote, flesh out and steward God’s ideas in the earth. To give hands, feet, legs mouths etc to His plans.