Good Words for Today: January 21

“So we must not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up” (Galatians 6:9). Sometimes we feel like giving up. I met a man who serves Christ in a distant land where it is not easy to be a Christian. Though he as brave as any man I know, he said that not long ago he felt like giving up. The burdens were so great, the needs so many, and his strength so limited. Wiping the tears away, he said, “I felt like giving up.” All of us have felt that way, most of us many times. Sometimes we may feel as if our words make no difference. But there never was a word spoken for Christ that was spoken in vain. Jesus remembers what we forget, and he records it all in heaven. Here is all God asks of us: Don’t give up! Don’t stop! Don’t grow weary! Keep on going. There will be a wonderful harvest to come. That harvest will partly come in life and much of it will come when we finally get to heaven. Nothing done for Jesus is wasted–in this life or the life to come.

January 21, 2017

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