DAD'S RAMBLINGS -- KEEP ON KEEPING ON

DAD'S RAMBLINGS – KEEP ON KEEPING ON

"But as for You, brethren, do not grow weary in doing good." (II Thessalonians 3:13)

Have you ever grown tired of doing what is good and right? I venture that most of us have. It would be so much easier to just give in and go with the flow. But God has not called us to float through life. He places challenges in our path to let us know that the battle is not over. He still has victories to accomplish through us.

We get a further insight into this admonition in the letter Paul wrote to the churches in Galatia. He encouraged them with these words using the metaphor of a farmer: "And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart" (Galatians 6:9).

We need to keep the long view. When we grow weary, we need to be like a farmer who looks past the toil of the work involved to the joy of the harvest. Suppose that the farmer lost heart and quit in the middle of the season. He would miss the fruit of his labor.

When we get tired of praying, of studying God's Word, of going to church, of living the righteous life, let us remember that there is reward for those who keep on keeping on.

Love, Dad