Real Accomplishments Come Dressed in Overalls and Look Like Work

Here's what every farmer knows that you've forgotten.

Real accomplishments come dressed in overalls and look like work.

But you want the harvest without the dirt under your fingernails.

You see someone else's success and think, "I want that." But you don't see the 4 AM wake-up calls. You don't see the calloused hands. You don't see the seasons of planting with no visible growth.

You see the highlight reel and miss the overalls.

"All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty." (Proverbs 14:23)

This is where keeping up with the Joneses becomes dangerous to your purpose. You're comparing your behind-the-scenes struggle to someone else's finished product.

Their success also came dressed in overalls.

When God presents opportunities to you, they often come disguised as work. Hard, grinding, unglamorous work that will stretch you mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

The question isn't whether you want the blessing.

The question is whether you're willing to put on the overalls.

That thing you think about all the time, that you just can't seem to shake—pursuing it is going to require work. Real work.

People dismiss their calling because the work seems too complex, too demanding, too much.

But here's what they miss: God specializes in preparing you through the work.

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters." (Colossians 3:23)

Jesus understood something about preparation through work.

So many people pray and expect blessings to just drop from heaven with no resistance. That's not how God works.

He works through work.

The mental, emotional, and spiritual stretching that comes with stepping into your purpose isn't punishment. It's preparation.

You should have the audacity to believe you can do the hard work, even when it comes dressed in overalls.

What calling are you avoiding because it looks like work?