“We walk by faith, not by sight.” —2 Corinthians 5:7
“For a while, we are fully aware of God’s concern for us.
But then, when God begins to use us in His work, we begin to take on a pitiful
look and talk only of our trials and difficulties. And all the while God is
trying to make us do our work as hidden people who are not in the spotlight.
None of us would be hidden spiritually if we could help it. […] A self-assured
saint is of no value to God. […] We are here, not as immature angels, but as
men and women, to do the work of this world. And we are to do it with an
infinitely greater power to withstand the struggle because we have been born
from above.” CHAMBERS
We must be very careful that we don’t let the very reason
God has us at work become the reason we lose heart. Let’s say that someone
hires you to shovel dirt. The man tells
you the job will be a challenge. The job
will take several days to complete. You are so happy that you have work and
will be paid you agree to do it. “No
problem!”, you say. But the sun is hot,
there is no shade. The ground is
hard. The job turns out to be more
difficult than you imagined. Soon you begin
to resent the work. You are tired. Your hands are blistered. Your face is sunburned. Your back aches. You have lost the joy that you had in the
beginning. That can happen in serving
the Lord as well. Where you begin to
resent the very ones that are sent to serve.
It may be your pile of dirt is your local church, the place where you
work, or even in a land that is not your own.
God placed you there because of the very thing that you have grown to
dislike. What you now see as a problem
is actually a ministry opportunity. The
problem is that you have lost focus. You
are no longer walking by faith but by sight.
Doing not in the Lord’s strength, but in your own. The Lord’s strength is like a bulldozer ..
yours is like a spoon. It is a daily
effort to trust in God … (Proverbs 3:5,6)
ELGIN
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
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