We've Got To Get Our Hands Dirty!

While growing up on a farm back in the 1940's, this writer quickly learned that in order to successfully accomplish the things that needed to be done on the farm, you had to get your hands dirty. Dirty, such as churning butter, milking cows, slopping hogs, feeding chickens, gathering eggs, cleaning out chicken coops, and a multitude of other dirty and distasteful chores.

One of the problems with today's millennial generation (those folks who have been raised in the digital world), is that they don't want to get their hands dirty. They want everything to be clean and instantaneous (see video), allowing osmosis (see #2, #5) to take care of everything else.

Some Christians in the Lord's church are not unlike the above millennials. They want to know the Bible without having to study or teach it (2 Timothy 2:15; 2 Timothy 2:1-2 KJV; cf. Romans 2:17-29 NLT), and they want that knowledge instantaneously, without having to get their hands dirty. 

Beloved, that will never happen. The inspired apostle Peter tells us that we "must grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 3:18). We can only accomplish this internal growth by digging deeply into God's word (Psalm 1:1-2 NET) on a daily basis, getting our hands dirty (both literally and figuratively speaking).

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