Rest easy and know that God is working in your life

Hey everyone! So today, I’m going to be sharing you something that I read a few days ago. I read this thing and it struck me because we just talked about something similar in church. 

But before we get into any of that, let’s have our moment of silence. 

At this time, I would like all of us to take a moment of silence and pray to God to help us to become the best possible Christians that we are supposed to become. Take a minimum of 5 minutes and pray for these things. 

Now back to the show

Rest easy and know that God is working in your life

So, I was looking up  success stories in music. 

I was specifically looking up if a music career is actually possible in this day and age. 

I wanted to research and see if someone can actually make a decent living off of music. By decent living, I meant between 80k and 200k a year or more. If a person can make around those estimates, then I would count that too. 

And the reason why I wanted to research this topic is because I’m currently in the music industry. I currently talk about music, I write music, I sing music, I write about music, and I was just curious about something.

Obviously there are some musicians out there who make millions of dollars a year. Some have made billions of dollars in their lifetime. 

But I’m thinking to myself, is something a little more realistic possible for the budding musician? 

I mean I have read before on different surveys that the average musician makes anywhere between 30k to 50k a year. However, I just don’t think that this is an acceptable number to come out of in any industry. 

I mean I have heard the term starving artist before, along with other negative financial stories about musicians.

And I got into a bit of a panic in my head (not literally but a sort of thought kept popping up in my head.)

What if I’m poor forever? 

I don’t want to be poor! 

But I do want to make a living off of my music. 

And I started thinking, what if I’ll never have enough to support myself? What if I never move forward with my career? What if I’m stuck doing the same thing for the rest of my life? Will I always be walking to and from places? Will I ever get a wife? Literally !! haha! I know that’s funny! But it’s the thoughts that popped up in my head. 

So I started to pray to God to bless me and my blog. 

I prayed to God to bless my hands with work. I prayed to God to always provide a place to live and food to eat and clothes to wear. 

And I started praying. And sure enough this past Sunday came. 

I went to church and my pastor is always the man that says that work is absolutely essential to living. My pastor always says that it’s good to have a good career. 

I know it’s true. 

But today, he said something that doesn’t contradict that, but it goes along with what he’s always said. 

He basically said, to rest in God from the stresses of this world. 

Well he actually said that the rest that God gives is rest that we can go to for three things. Rest from spiritual condemnation, rest from the stresses of this world,  and the last thing I can’t remember but I remember it was important. 

However I remembered that rest from the stresses of this world so much because I was having trouble with those things in my life. 

I was concerned that I was going to live with my parents until I was old and I don’t want to do that. 

So I started to pray. I prayed to God to let me confide in him. I prayed to him that if it be his will, then I will get a career and do something with my life. And now that I’ve prayed, I need to wait on him to answer. 

I need to rest in God for an answer. I need to have faith in him above all else. 

The rest that God gave me truly is rest. I see now that God has truly given me rest from the stresses of this world. 

However, that doesn’t mean that I can stop praying or going to church or stop reading the bible. 

So what about my music career?

I believe in God. I believe in God above my religion, above my parents, above my teachers. And the bible is clear when it says in Proverbs 14:23 it states, “In all labor there is profit.” 

This blog is labor, and I am working at it hard. 

What else does the bible say about the diligent hand? I believe it says in Proverbs, “… The diligent hand maketh rich.” 

What else does the bible say about making money? I believe in proverbs it also says, “good riches take long periods of time to achieve.” 

So right now, I’m 1 and a half years into this blog. I haven’t been doing this for 10 years now. I have been doing this for 1 and a half. 

That’s not a bad amount of time to be doing a blog, but it’s not expert level quite yet. 

And I don’t think that it’s enough time to actually make a living off of it, based on the bible. 

So in total, I believe that I can make a living off of my music along with anyone else who puts in the work. 

It just takes a little bit of God.

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I thank you all for listening in on this blog post. I sure hope that I have been an inspiration and a hope to you all. Please remember to pray, read your bible, go to church, and love God above all else. Like, comment, share, subscribe, and I will see you all next time. 

If you want to go to heaven, then believe in Jesus and you will go to heaven. (John 3:16)

German Gonzalez, signing out!