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Galatians 6:9

Let us not get tired of doing good. At the right time
we'll reap if we don't give up"

Have you ever thought about giving up? You know, everything has happened at once, I just can't take it anymore. Look at all these people who cheat, do whatever it takes to get ahead, treat people like dirt to get ahead, they have everything they want and here am I, struggling to make it to the next paycheck. Where is the justice.? It is easy to have these thoughts when we start focusing upon ourselves instead of others. Selfishness is the beginning of all sin. "Why don't I have what HE/SHE has?". "What makes them better then me?" You know that old "I am a victim mentality." "If I had been given the chance that they were when I was a kid, then I could have made something better of myself, and been rich today".

Yes, I have to admit here, that I have not only thought about giving up, but have given up on several occasions. The only problem was, God wouldn't let me. He continued to bless me, even though I had sinned, He continued to speak to me, asking me to come back to Him, telling me how much He loved me, even though I had clearly Given up.

My daughter is a high school algebra 2 teacher. She says sometimes she is just so overwhelmed she calls in sick, not very often, but on days that she just can't stand it. She says the teachers call it a "Mental Health" day. I can completely understand, I would not want to be trapped in a room all day long with a bunch of teenagers, either. I think I would end up taking a "Mental Health LIFE":) So should we take a "vacation day" from God? Should we stop believing for just today, Lord? NO, but sitting quietly and talking to Him, letting Him know exactly how your feeling, asking Him the hard questions, the ones that no one asked when you were growing up. If you need to take a day off from work to do this, I am not going to call your boss for you and explain, but I think sometimes this is needed.

"Let us not get tired of doing good." Wow, that cuts right down to the nitty gritty, doesn't it. We, as human beings, have a sinful nature. To obey and trust God, goes against our very nature. It takes something out of us, BUT we get so much more in, if we do obey and trust and believe in HIM> When we get past the Human nature part of ourselves, then we realize this is what God made us for, communing with Him.

Sometimes we see no "fruit" from all our work, we witness, we go to church, we obey God, we pay our tithes, we praise the Lord during praise and worship.............but what do we have to show for it? Nothing. Ever felt that way? Your not alone. But do you know when the peace, the reward, the feeling in our spirit that it will all be wonderful....comes? When we throw up our hands and tell God that even though we can't see anything from our work, we know He can. We determine in our hearts, that it is all worth it, because WE don't know what the outcome of our witnessing may be.

When you talk to someone about the Lord, and what He means to you, and what He has done in your life, you may never know how that word is used. Those words may be spoken over and over and over by who you told it to, and others they told it to and.................Good stories spread like wild fire, especially jokes. AND God's word is more then a "good story" it is truth, it is life, it is something to get excited about. It is NOT a Joke..

We are used to only hearing the bad stuff through the media. Everything is bad, someone killed 23 people then killed themselves, there was a 5 car pileup on the interstate killing 13 people, Such and Such country now has the ability to make nuclear weapons and they are very upset with the USA.................And in lighter news, the Electric rate is going up...........
Always negative, we want to hear the bad stuff, BUT this only makes us depressed, just ask my Dad, he watches the news and then complains and complains about how this country is going down the drain. No wonder we want to give up. We are bombarded with the negative 24/7.Where is the news that a missionary in China told 1000's of Chinese people about the Lord God Jesus, and 25,000 accepted Him as their personal savior? You'll never see that on the worlds news media outlets. BUT what does the word of God say? For God SO loved the world, that He sent His SON..............We, humans, blew it, we messed up, we brought sin into the world, and yet (Please read my last blog, the God of the AND Yet's) He sent His Son to save us from ourselves, because we couldn't. Got it? WE sinned, but HE fixed it. He could have said: "Not my problem, I set everything up, told you what you could and couldn't do and yo blew it, so your gone bye!" But He did NOT< and yet, WE want to give up?

....."At the right time we'll reap if we don't give up". The Game is almost over, Jesus is coming back SOON. Can't you feel it? Can't you see the things that are happening around us? Prophecy is unfolding all around us, and Jesus' second coming is right around the corner. The time for giving up is long past, the finish line is within sight. Why would you run this much of the race, and then quit? Yes it is getting harder, Satan knows the end is near, so he is applying more pressure on us.

Paul used sports terms a lot: "Finish the race, hit the mark, the goal is Jesus Christ................"Have you ever heard of someone who runs 26 miles of a marathon and then quits in the last .2 miles? It doesn't matter if you have twisted your ankle, if you are only .2 miles away after running for 26 miles, you want to finish this thing. I am sure it is very hard, especially if you really do have a twisted ankle, but you can see the finish line, the end is in sight, why stop now, just feet, inches away from the goal?

Don't quit, don't give up, let Jesus give you rest, take on some carb's, grab a bottle of water, slow down a little if you have to, but for just a second, ask Jesus to give you strength, He will.

"At the right time we'll reap if we don't give up" Why do you think God doesn't let us know exactly when His son is coming back for us? Because then, we would look at our watch say:L "OK, 3 hours to get my life together and serve the Lord, before He comes back for me" That's not love for God, that is just timing. Fake, doing something because we don't want to burn in hell.

See it? Heaven, it is just over the next rise, around the next corner, don't give up now, you'll be so sorry. Ask for Strength, ask for determination, it will be given. Don't stop, the race isn't quite over.