Any effort without God is a struggle in futility, an exercise in waste. Anyone who surrenders everything to God finds God's hand in everything. As we step out of our doorposts today putting God first, may we not come back empty handed; may our honest, genuine and sincere efforts not be in vain. May our hustles yield bountiful fruits, may we grow from nothing to something, from scarcity to abundance, from emptiness to fullness and from misery to might, through Christ our Lord.