a perfect work
July 26th, 2010
This i a continuation of “What is God doing nowadays?“.
Now that we Christian have the power to move things along or be moved by the Hand of God as He does His work of moving things along, how do we ensure that we do not deviate from the work that He is doing through us?
Here is an illustration i got from somewhere.
Easy battle. Enjoyable work.
I was in this place. Where, i do not know. It was dark all around but there was enough light that you could see shapes in the darkness. All around a battle was raging. But the fighting was with words. Speak the word, and the enemies who you could see coming at you would be pushed back. The intersting thing is that whether they were many or few, i managed to always push them back. And this went on and on, but i never tired.
In the second scene, the battle is now done, and the fighters regrouped. Everyone came around to share what their work was all about. Every worker was excited about what he did, and was overly excited when explaining the details of what they did. And each person was eager to recruit more people to go join them in doing what they ( the worker) was doing. It seemed, each person had the perfect job.
Here is the interpretation of that illustration.
Hard work, yet effortless, untiring
How is that even possible, to do a hard job and not be tired? Because, as we said in the last post, it is not you that is doing the working, but it is the Father ( through His Spirit) who is working through you, the vessel of his choice.
Therefore, it is impossible to burn out!
31 But those who wait on the LORD
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint. ( Isaiah 40:31 NKJV)
Secondly, that work you are moved to do for the Lord, you want to do it all your life, and you enjoy it so much you would recommend and recruit others to join you. It is not a chore, or like these 9-5 jobs people do, that one gets paid for. For these type of jobs, most people live for Friday or payday ( Payday is great, of course).
No, it is living, a lifestyle one enjoys.
Apostle Paul had completed his task and given a chance to leave the earth. Paul’s life on earth was full of hardships and persecution. He really ought to have jumped at the chance of retirement and be with the Lord ( after all the Lord had told him that he was done). He instead chose to stay on and assist the new Christians. This is because he enjoyed his assignments.
I have done this
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