Do you often hear successful people say “Work hard will never betray” or “Work hard will pay off”?

Well, I refer successful people here as someone who is materially success, someone who has a lot of money, someone who is rich.

I was watching a video from a famous Youtuber before I went to sleep. Rather than sleepy, I feel more enthusiast to write down what’s on my mind after watching the video.

In the video, she said something like this “People know me for getting many subscribers in a short amount of time. However, they don’t know how hard I work for it, behind the scene. My efforts, my thoughts, my tears, everything” Well, from what I watched, I can assume that she wanted to tell us something like this “I don’t have a comfortable life. All I have now is the reward for my hard work, and it’s tiring too, but you just don’t see it”.

Let me write down what I think.

The fact that she is living a comfortable life can’t be denied. She has a lot of money and she is famous. Reward for your hard work? There are many people who works as hard as you, but doesn’t get reward as much as you get. I can say this because I’ve been there. I worked for a company, from early in the morning until the next morning without getting overtime payment. Moreover, I got sick, and I need to pay the doctor and the hospital expenses by myself. Don’t know how many tears have been shed during that time. Depression was my best friend, and suicide thoughts easily came to my mind.

If you think I was a loser, well, I don’t know about that, but I will tell you some facts. I was quite popular in the company, that so many managers fought to get me as their staff. On average, staff would get 3-4 clients a year, and I got 7 clients in a year; nearly doubled the average. Even my coworker could say something like this “You work harder than me, you always go home later than me, but I get more than you”.

So, what I want to say from this story?

What I want to tell you is that, those successful people (well, not all, but mostly) don’t realize that not all hard work will pay off. Some of the people work harder than them, but never get the same reward. I work hard from the morning until the morning, I work smart with a magnificent result until so many people want to work with me, but I never get the same reward.

If they work hard, and they get all those rewards, they should be thankful and grateful, because it’s a grace, a gift from God. It’s not because of human’s work, your hard work means nothing, it could even lead you to gain no reward at all. And to respond those grace, they should use their reward wisely as it is not theirs, but it’s belong to God.

I remembered watching an interview of a director from a famous company, he was being asked “What’s the secret to your success?”, then he answered “I don’t know. It’s all grace. How I came up with this brilliant idea and that brilliant idea, and failed. One day I got this strange idea, and it worked! God’s way is too hard to be understood by human”

Not many people would understand this, but I’m so grateful that through my personal experience, I can relate to the words of this director. This is something that people will never understand, except if they experience it.

“Then if it’s all grace, I shouldn’t be working. I may get everything even if I’m not working and I probably get nothing even if I’m working hard” I bet this kind of argument will be said a lot by people who believe that rewards come to those who work hard. Well, I will say no. The point here is, you have to do all your responsibilities, and if you got those rewards, it’s a bonus. It’s God’s right to give you a big rewards or not, it’s not for you to decide.

So, if I or you got those jobs, got those money, got those place to stay, got those car, just everything you have, no matter how small it is, it’s all grace. Remember that someone who works as hard as you might not get those reward as much as you.

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