The word for today is work.
“All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty” (Prov. 14:23).
“Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men” (Col. 3:23).
“Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. Already he who reaps is receiving wages, and is gathering fruit for life eternal; that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this case the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor” (John 4:35-38).
“Then He said to His disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest’” (Matt. 9:37-38).
“We must work the works of Him who sent Me, as long as it is day; night is coming, when no man can work” (John 9:4).
“Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, workers in the Lord. Greet Persis the beloved, who has worked hard in the Lord” (Rom. 16:12).
“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15).
Prayer: Lord, I want to be a sweating servant straining in Your service until the whistle blows. I am singing a verse of “Work for the Night Is Coming”: “Work, for the night is coming, Work through the sunny noon; Fill brightest hours with labor, Rest comes sure and soon: Give ev’ry flying minute Something to keep in store; Work, for the night is coming, When man works no more.”