Develop your resources

Most of us are like wild land - undeveloped. We show signs of real wealth, but it is lying underneath the roots and stumps and refuse that need to be cleared away to make the soil usable.

Here is a voice with marvelous timbre, but no training.

They write across it, "Unusable, undeveloped."

Here is a face with a smile that has wrapped up in it a fortune, but the mind back of it is untrained, unfit, unready.

We write across it, "Unavailable."

Titus 3:1	… be ready unto every good work,
2 Timothy 3:17	That the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.
2 Timothy 4:5	But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill thy ministry.
John 9:4	We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Revelation 22:12	Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is.

What we need is hard work, not work on impulse, but on principle. We need to drive ourselves until we have developed the rich resources within us. The time to do it is now.
Begin today to clean up that rich bottom land in your nature, and get it into production at once.

2 Thessalonians 3:11

For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.

Make everything swing into line now to the one great objective of your life. Determine your future; settle what you are going to do and then make every day pay tribute.
Form habits of study, habits of industry. Learn to save the moments; the hours will take care of themselves.

Form the habit of concentration, downright hard thinking.
Drive your mind. Become an absolute slave-driver over your own faculties. They are your slaves, your servants. Make them work. Make them study. Make them develop.

Kill laziness and that droning habit of dreaming.
Transform it into vital energy. Set the dynamo of a tremendous purpose loose inside of you.

Indecision and wastefulness of ability and time must be destroyed.
Fight for time. It is the most valuable asset you have. Cut every corner. Save every moment. Be exact with yourself. Put yourself on a schedule. Make yourself do your best. Wasting time is wasting ability. It is wasting the thing that makes you worth while.

John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, My Father works even until now, and I work.

Learn to use it.
Make your time your wealth. Make moments pay dividends. Carve out of every day that which spells success for tomorrow. Make yourself worth while. Make people want you. Make yourself so attractive, so vitally attractive, and so valuable that men will hunt after you.

Make opportunities where no opportunities ever existed before.
Make yourself ready for the opportunity.

John 6:27

Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.

Succes-25