What Did You Do?

In Psalms 1 is described this guy who is not joining in with the sinning, mocking, or bad advice, and but instead he keeps meditating on God's word.  Now our efforts don’t earn God’s love or his blessings.  But living by His principals is always going to bring better stuff in our lives.  So this is good advice.  Then later as it describes this guy, it says in verse 3 "Whatever he does prospers."  Prospers is a good thing.  God desires for you to prosper.  But note that it is what he DOES that prospers.  This means we have to do some stuff if we want to see the prosperity that God has given us.   God promises to bless the works of your hands, but the hands have to do some work.  So I get the idea that God's system is designed so that we find success when we work hard, keep trying, don't quit, and aren't lazy.  Holding down the couch, although quite pleasurable, is not producing success.  I don’t think a couch can produce fruit.  (but if it does you could probably sell it for quite a profit) When we get out there and start working then the success that God has promised can finally be experienced.