By Andrea Merrell
So let’s not get tired of doing what is good.
At just the right time
we will reap a
harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.
Galatians 6:9 NLT
“I give up,” the man said. “This Christian life is too hard. I
can’t possibly do everything that’s expected of me.”
Trying to live a perfect life will wear us down and make us
want to quit. But the Bible says, “So let’s not get tired of doing what is good.”
Why? Because “at just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we
don’t give up.”
So
what exactly is the good the verse is referring to? What does God expect
from us? According to Ecclesiastes 12:13, we are to “fear God, and keep his
commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.”
God doesn’t want us to make serving Him so difficult that we get tired, frustrated, and burned out. He doesn’t want us to quit. His desire is for us to stop striving and surrender ourselves completely to Him. To love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. That’s what the Christian life is all about—not in all the doing, but in being ... exactly who He created us to be.
Are
you weary? Don’t give up, give in.
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