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REAL LABOUR

Text : John 6:27 (Amp)

*Stop toiling and doing and producing for the food that perishes and decomposes [in the using], but strive and work and produce rather for the [lasting] food which endures [continually] unto life eternal; the Son of Man will give (furnish) you that, for God the Father has authorized and certified Him and put His seal of endorsement upon Him*

The bible says that there is profit in all labour (proverbs 14:23). The question you need ask however is what type of profit is your labour yielding-perishables or eternal profit ?

From Jesus' statement, it is obvious that you can either labour for the meat that perishes or for that which endures. *One of the finest strategies of the devil against man's eternal inheritance is to make him focus all his energy on labour that leads to Vanity* 

 *When a man, who is an eternal being in nature expend all his energy pursuing the mundane and perishables, he simply turns to a vain fellow.* 

Jesus sternly warned the people following Him for the sake of bread not to labour for the meat that perishes. 

The wisest and richest king that ever lived on the face of the earth (before Jesus Christ) also affirmed in Ecclesiastes that all the work done under the sun is vanity.

 _"I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit"_ 

Ecclesiastes 1:14 

He further stressed that,

 _"...I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was not profit under the sun"_ (Ecclesiastes 2:11).

True profiting is when your labour yields eternal dividends.

 *PRAYER FOCUS*

1. Lord, help me to start 2labouring for the meat that does not perish.

2. Lord, help me to value the labour for the eternal things more than the labour for the perishables. 

 *Bible reading:* John 6:14-29.

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