Where God Wants Me (Video)

We serve a Sovereign God. We should never ever doubt His timing!

One Day Closer

When he was only seven I sent him off to school one day and a little while later there was a knock at the door. I opened the door and it was Jason. I said, "Jason what are you doing here?"  He said, "I've quit school!" I said, "Why have you quit school son?" He said, "Well it was too long, it was too hard and  a lot of people were too mean." I looked at Jason in the eyes and said, "Jason, you have just described life, not get back on that bus!"  (Patsy Clairmont, God Uses Cracked Pots)

Pretty humorous story but isn't it very much the truth? The world seems to reflect more evil than good, more selfish motives than selfless acts, more evil intentions with more me, me, and more me attitudes, and where sarcasm is treated as the English language. It can be easy to get tired of "doing good". We stay frustrated when we don't see a change in the people who we have been asked to help. Yet the bible admonishes us "not to grow weary in well-doing for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart". In this message Paul was talking to the church, Christians like you and I and it was obvious they must have felt the same struggles. Paul knew when we continually persist in "doing good" we become exhausted and sometimes feel like quitting. Why? Because to "do good", takes effort.

When someone continually mistreats you, it takes an intentional effort to return kindness. When you begin volunteering in a ministry and the demands get greater and more is required, it's easy to consider walking away but it takes a determined resolve to stay committed. When you relentlessly stay on your knees praying for a lost son or daughter, brother, sister, for physical healing, restitution, or reconciliation and day after day you see empty results, it's easy to consider giving into the enemies taunts, to throw in the towel, quit, give up on every believing something will change. The enemy is eager to stop you from "doing good". He wants you to tell that person off who keeps slandering you and yours. He is prompting you to trade in your teaching materials for a little rest and relaxation on the weekends and if he can get you to stop spending time on your knees, who else will be praying for your children and lost loved ones?

Yet it's in these times when we find ourselves in the place of struggle and exhaustion and we are ready to give up, we must recommit to an even greater determination to remain faithful. We must choose to keep moving forward, to walk by faith and not be sight. For in the natural things can look obscured, progress may seem dimmed but in the spiritual realm when resistance surfaces it means we are really one day closer to reaping our harvest.

Galations 6:9 says, "You will reap, gather, collect and obtain ALL the good you have sown."

Friend if you are struggling in continuing to "do good" and you have wrestled with the idea of quitting; please don't throw in the towel just yet. You never know how close you are to victory. It's possible your as close as one more prayer, one more sacrificial gift given, one more time to turn the other cheek until God declares, "It's due season for this child, now give her what she's owed!"

Don't let the enemy rob you of your "doing good" harvest! Keep pressing forward even through adversity; stay determined to finish the entire course. Resist aborting the harvest you have already sown because today when the sun sets, you will be another day closer.