Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

The line urges practical readiness: cultivate skills, discipline, and moral steadiness so that when opportunity or duty arrives you can answer it. By framing work as something “God will find” for you, it reflects a Victorian Christian ethic in which vocation is not merely self-chosen ambition but a calling encountered through providence and service. The emphasis falls less on waiting passively for inspiration than on preparing—keeping one’s “tools” (abilities, habits, education, character) in order—so that useful labor can be taken up immediately. It is both a counsel against idleness and a reassurance that purposeful work will come to the prepared person.