Proverbs 14:23 All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
It is true that if you just talk about doing something nothing will happen. In order to see rewards, you need to put in the work. A lot of progress is made when you start something on your own, which means nothing will happen if you just talk about concepts.
So, don’t just talk about starting a business, building a house, starting a project, changing your life. Get into action.
Also, don’t just complain about something when it isn’t working well, go and fix it!
Talk will bring you nowhere without action. If you’re trying to reach a certain level, working hard will help propel you towards that.
The stirring hand gets a penny. It is good therefore to keep in business, and to keep in action, and what our hand finds to do to do it with all our might. Talking, without working, will make men poor. Those that love to boast of their business and make a noise about it, and that waste their time in tittle-tattle, in telling and hearing new things, like the Athenians, and, under presence of improving themselves by conversation, neglect the work of their place and day, they waste what they have, and the course they take tends to penury, and will end in it. (Matthew Henry Commentary.)
It is true in the affairs of our souls; those that take pains in the service of God, that strive earnestly in prayer and reading of the word, they will reap spiritual and physical profits compared to those who only talk.
Let us get to work and enable our diligent hands reap the profits.
Further reading:
Psa 90:17
Pro 6:10
Pro 24:33
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