DEAR NIGERIAN HUSTLER...

Yes, hard work pays even the Bible says so!
"In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury." (Proverbs 14:23)

So it is right to work, it's even wrong not to work.
But hard work is not the secret to prosperity or success if not 'labourers' would be richer than most of us.
Many people work hard and yet they are broke and unsuccessful! Why? Because....
The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city. (Ecclesiastes 10:15)

So there's a way a person can work hard and yet he will end up poor and beggarly.
Because..."Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it...(Psalms 127:1)
So a man can work himself to death and still end up with little or nothing...
The reward you get for such a labor is called 'the bread of sorrow'.
Watch this:
" It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. (Psalms 127:2)
Imagine a man working to be rewarded with such a thing...yet that is what many are doing!

The goodnews though is there's also a way to work hard that can lead to riches and success.
It's called THE BLESSING OF THE LORD!

It is the Blessing of the Lord that makes Rich( without adding sorrow) not hard work. Yes, you can hustle alone to be rich but it will come with lots of sorrow, if you haven't secured the Blessing of the Lord. If God has not blessed what you're doing, you cannot be rich without sorrow.

This is why many are struggling without anything to show for it , while others might have something to show for it but the pain that accompanies the success is not worth it.

So in all your hustle, secure the blessing of God. God cannot bless what is bad or what is against His rules. So your 'hustle' needs to pass the test for it to receive the Blessing of God.
But once God blesses your hustle, just find rest...
So Dear Nigerian Hustler, it is not hustle that makes Rich it is the Blessing of the Lord.

© Kenneth Dogara