Each believer in the Lord Jesus should have a growing desire to serve Him. There’s coming a day when the Lord Jesus will return. But while we are waiting for that blessed day we should be occupied in doing work for the Lord.
Bible Scriptures: Darby Translation
Isaiah 49:4 “And I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain; nevertheless my judgment is with Jehovah, and my work with my God.”
Luke 19:12 “He said therefore, A certain high-born man went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and return. And having called his own ten bondmen, he gave to them ten minas, and said to them, Trade while I am coming.”
Mark 14:3-8 “And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he lay at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it out upon his head. And there were some indignant in themselves, and saying, Why has this waste been made of the ointment?for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her. But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? she has wrought a good work as to me; for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would ye can do them good; but me ye have not always. What *she* could she has done. She has beforehand anointed my body for the burial. And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever these glad tidings may be preached in the whole world, what this [woman] has done shall be also spoken of for a memorial of her.”
Nehemiah 2:17-18 “And I said to them, Ye see the distress that we are in, that Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me; as also of the king’s words which he had said unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. And they strengthened their hands for the good [work].”