Labor Lost.
G.W.S.Ware.
May,3,1939.
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Labor is to work with body, mind or spirit. Lost: missing; forfeited; destroyed.
All labor, should be for good results, otherwise, it is lost. All actions which require
no self denial, is not labor, but pleasure. Happy the person who tries to labor from such
a worthy standpoint.
Work, is a pleasure in heaven, labor, on earth, and torment in the nether world. God
worked to create all things; Satan worked to destroy them; Christ came and worked to
destroy the works of the Devil (1 Jo. 5:8). The Lord Jesus Christ has done work enough for
every person, who will believe it; and the Devil’s labor to condemn him to Hell, will
be lost. Children of God can do work, and labor hard on earth to perform it, and see it
lost by fire (1 Cor. 3:15). How needless, for any christian to have his labor done on
earth, lost in that way. God commands man to examine himself (2 Cor. 13:5), here on earth.
By so doing, he can have himself saved from seein his works lost in that day. All good
works done to exalt self, rest on a sinful foundation, and will be burned in that day; and
it will be a mercy to all of God’s people who must stand by and see them burned.
Supposed all such works were not burned out of existence; what would these children of God
do with them? They would abhor the idea of taking them into the presence of God; and as
they were good works, they could not be sent to Hell, for no good thing can go there,
hence, God burns them out of existence. Do you want to do good works that will not be lost
by fire? Then, do all your good works for God–not for self, or any other person or
reason. This was why Paul suffered the loss of all things (Phil. 3:8,9), rather than
remain a great man among his people. Man’s life through this world is labor–look
around you and you will it a fact. The sinner, the beggar, the indolent, labor hard on
their line; and "unless they repent," they will perish with their lost labor.
