♰ Youth Meeting “Boredom” Student: “I don’t know what I want to do with my life.” Teacher: “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.” Psalms 34:18 18 The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Psalms 51:10 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Proverbs 13:4 4 The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. Proverbs 18:9 9 Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys. Proverbs 19:15 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger. Ecclesiastes 2:1 1 I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity. Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 24 There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, 25 for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? 26 For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. Ecclesiastes 3:10-13 10 I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 12 I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; 13 also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man. Ecclesiastes 9:10 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going. Matthew 12:36 36 I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, Matthew 12:38-39 38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” 39 But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. Matthew 16:24-27 24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? 27 For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done. Matthew 20:3 3 And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, Matthew 26:41 41 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Luke 1:47 47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, John 4:23 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. Acts 17:16 16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. Romans 1:9 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you 1 Corinthians 14:15 15 What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also. Galatians 6:8 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. Ephesians 5:18 18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, Colossians 3:23 23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, Colossians 4:2 2 Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 2 Timothy 2:15 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:22 22 So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. James 1:2 2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, James 4:15 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” James 5:7 7 Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. James 5:11 11 Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.