God may give you an assignment that does not immediately put money in your pocket. Perhaps you feel led to organise a Children’s Day celebration every year for vulnerable children. Perhaps you mentor young people, write devotionals, visit prisons, or support widows. These things matter to God. Yet many believers abandon their assignments because they cannot see how the money will come if they spend all their time on such an assignment. They think serving others means remaining broke. But this is not true. The God who gives assignments also blesses the work of our hands.
Proverbs 13:23 says there is much food in the tillage of the poor. If you are solving problems, and creating value, you will get paid. Think about the Children’s Day celebration again. The children need food, games, gifts and transportation. Those things cost money. But hosting the event does not stop you from earning an income for yourself for managing the event. Everyone of us must learn how people in our calling sustain their work. The assignment is spiritual, but managing it requires practical wisdom. Do not merely discover your duty post. Discover its economics.
God calls people, but He also expects them to learn stewardship. Do not use lack of money as an excuse to neglect your duty post. Instead, educate yourself. Study your calling carefully. Ask questions. How do people doing this work provide for their families? How do they fund the vision? A labourer is worthy of his wages (Luke 10:7), and Scripture says that if anyone does not work, neither should he eat (2 Thessalonians 3:10). God is not asking you to choose between serving others and taking care of yourself. He is asking you to become wise enough to do both.
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