The answer will depend on what we make of St. Paul's words to the Corinthians: «
What hast thou that thou didst not receive?
I think Jason Fieber is good example for by having creating enough passive income, he just concentrates on projects he really wants to do and
what he hast to do.
Not exact matches
Actually God said, «
What is this that thou
hast done»?
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou
hast ordained;
What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
This is exactly
what James meant when he said... «Yea, a man may say, Thou
hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works» (James 2:18).
Whether the stars are as near as they seemed to the Psalmist or are removed by the millions and billions of light years to which we must accustom our imagination, still the question is the same: «When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou
hast established;
what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?»
Genesis 3:13 - > And the LORD God said unto the woman,
What is this that thou
hast done?
I see the restlessness within us human beings, the sense of discontent with
what we are and who we are, to be no less than the grip of God's grace upon us, echoing St. Augustine's cry in his Confessions: «Thou, o God,
hast made us for thyself alone, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee.»
«Sell all that thou
hast, and give to the poor» was surely said for the spiritual benefit of the rich young man, with an eye to
what he might learn by doing it, rather than for the benefit of the poor (for whom it would have been a drop in the ocean).
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou
hast ordained;
What is man, that thou art mindful or him?
What more God - forsaken scene than Golgotha: «My God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me?»
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Hast thou not seen how Allah causeth the night to pass into the day and causeth the day to pass into the night, and hath subdued the sun and the moon (to do their work), each running unto an appointed term; and that Allah is aware of
what ye do?
... I can tell the very place where the blessed Polycarp used to sit [note the posture of the bishop as teacher or preacher upon his cathedra] as he discoursed, his goings out and his comings in, the character of his life,... the discourses he would address to the multitude, how we would tell of his conversations with John and with the others who had seen the Lord, how he would relate their words from memory... and I can testify before God that if that blessed and apostolic presbyter had heard the like [the Gnostic vagaries], he would have cried aloud and stopped his ears and said, as was his custom: «O good God, for
what sort of times
hast thou kept me, that I should endure these things?»
Oh, Thou the Good's stern zeal for thyself, that Thou perhaps permit - test him to get the reward in the world, just when Thou
hast rejected him; that Thou lettest him get the reward of the world, while he has ungratefully forgotten
what a blessedness it is to have Thy reward, while earth withholds her reward from him!
Have we learnt nothing from Jesus «have ye not heard
hast thou not seen» Come on, stop making up phylosophy, read
what Jesus said and did.