![]() There are no gains without pains then help hands, for I have no lands ” or if I have, they are smartly taxed. “Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hope will die fasting. ‘So what signifies wishing and hoping for better times? We may make these times better, if we bestir ourselves. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” as Poor Richard says. “Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy and he that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. “If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be” as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality ” since, as he elsewhere tells us, “Lost time is never found again and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.” Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose: so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. “Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears, while the used key is always bright,” as Poor Richard says.-”But, dost thou love life? then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of,” as Poor Richard says.-How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep! forgetting that, “the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,” as Poor Richard says. ‘It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time to be employed in its service: but idleness taxes many of us much more sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. However, let us hearken to good advice, and something may be done for us “God helps them that help themselves,” as Poor Richard says. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. "This record is an effort to draw a picture of what a believer, a follower of Jesus, would look like if they dug into their roots and understood God and themselves more," Hall concluded, "and then instead of trying to go be Christian for God, they just let God give them chances to be a Christian.‘Friends,’ says he, ‘the taxes are indeed very heavy and, if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. He put you here to thrive, to dig in and to reach out. Hard times are going to come, but God didn't put you here just so you could survive through hard times. The book of joy, Philippians, was written from prison. They all had troubles, some even at the expense of their lives. "None of the New Testament people had it easy. "That's not saying that you're not going to have problems," Hall added. "When I talk to families about how they are doing, they always say 'just surviving.' That is not the life that God designed for us to live. ![]() "Their roots are exposed and you can feel them just doing everything they can to get to where the water is," he explained. ![]() The concept was underscored during a family vacation in Gatlinburg, Tennessee when Hall looked at the trees near the river. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season.'" "It says: 'Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. "The songs always really start out with what we're teaching, and for years I've been using Psalm 1 in showing them what a believer looks like," he explained. The idea for the upbeat and rejoicing title track came out of Hall's student ministry.
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