Friday, May 1, 2015

What Happens When You Stop Walking By Faith




“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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