Do you expect to experience rejection for wrongdoing? Does it surprise you to be rejected for doing right? The urge for acceptance is strong. Yet I told my followers to rejoice when they were persecuted for my sake. I used the example of the Old Testament prophets who experience the same thing and I followed the same pattern. You don’t have to look very hard to find modern examples of this same principle. Anyone who challenges the status quo can expect opposition, and people will consider you their enemy for telling them the truth. Don’t be discouraged. Great is your reward in heaven for being my good and faithful servant. 

Do you worry about the future? I have counseled you against this. Do you wonder if I have mapped out your future for you, or if you are making it up as you go? This question leads you to issues of foreknowledge and foreordination. This is too great a burden for you to bear. You can move forward without a definite answer to this. I told you that my thoughts toward you were of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. My plans are to prosper you, and I will complete the good work I have begun in you. Don’t worry about tomorrow, but seek my will today. It will surely come to pass. 

Do you know, or know of, people whose ultimate goal is money? They take the concept of the almighty dollar seriously, and typically acquire much more money than the average person. But it is never enough. It seems that getting more causes their goal to advance even further, so they don’t make progress toward satisfaction. I placed in you a desire to seek the infinite and transcendent. It is a mistake to apply this quest to infinite money, because this is an unreal goal, but the longing still exists. I teach you to be content with your material things, and apply your desire for the infinite to things above, that your treasure may be in heaven.  

Do you see the need to earn a living as being a consequence of the fall? Does this give you a negative view of work as an unpleasant necessity? This would be a dismal perspective on something that requires so much of your life. There were those employed as servants in my time who had no control over the  terms of their employment. My word instructed them to seek freedom if they had the opportunity, otherwise to view their positions as serving me. You don’t have to be an involuntary servant to hold this perspective. Be glad if you have voluntary employment, and look at your job as sacred service for me.