Bonni and I attended two services yesterday at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. I am feeling spiritually recharged and we are now headed home.
“‘My food,’ Jesus said to them, ‘is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do [emphasis added].’” (John 4:34 GNT)
As Christians, we’re the happiest when we are doing what he called us to do. It is our joy and success to find God’s will and do it. But Jesus also spoke of finishing the work the Father called him to do. You see, one of the battles in life is when you start out doing God’s work and the enemy comes to attack and try to throw you off track, so that you get distracted and discouraged and finally drift away. A missionary can start out on fire for Christ and his work, and he or she can get so weary of fighting the enemy, the flesh, and even other Christians, that the person is tempted to quit, saying, “What’s the sense?” The temptation is to say to God, “For what? I’m a failure!” But the same God who called you, who has a plan for your life, is the same God who says to you, “I’ll be with you; I’ll help you. And even when you stumble, I’ll give you strength, because I see your heart to do my will.”
By the grace of God we’ve got to keep on keeping on, staying within the umbrella of God’s will, where we have the Father’s protection, no matter the heartache with which we do it. Let’s remember that we are not alone, but that it is the very Spirit of Christ in us, not only instilling in us the desire to do the will of God, but enabling us to finish his work as well.
Reminder that we will be turning our clocks back one hour before our Service this coming Sunday.
I’ll be in touch. Love, pastor kent