"I wanted you to see what real courage is, it's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." - Harper Lee
1 CHRONICLES 28-29
9“And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever. 10Consider now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house as the sanctuary. Be strong and do the work.”(29:9-10)
JOHN 11:47-57
47Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.
“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs. 48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”
JOURNAL
"Be strong and do the work." I love these words of David to Solomon. The words of a father to a son are precious. They can be life-giving or life-taking. David has called him as I believe God calls all believers in the same personal way. "Be strong and do the work" that he has blessed us to do.
No reason to whine about what I don't have or wish situations were different or put parameters on what God can do...God is God and he has given life and commands me to do my best in completing the work that is before me. The reality is that there is work to do every single day. It's also a reality that we are not getting out of here alive, all of us are destined to a body that will one day fail and yet we have work to do. That work may be digging a ditch, washing a car, teaching a lesson, coaching a player, hitting a ball, writing a blog, exercising my body, fighting cancer, loving an enemy or saving a life. No matter who I am or where I am, if there is life in my body then there is work to be done. Doing the work glorifies God...period. None is more important in God's eyes than another, it is the willingness to work and the heart and joy put into that work that matters.
MATTHEW 28:8-20
No reason to whine about what I don't have or wish situations were different or put parameters on what God can do...God is God and he has given life and commands me to do my best in completing the work that is before me. The reality is that there is work to do every single day. It's also a reality that we are not getting out of here alive, all of us are destined to a body that will one day fail and yet we have work to do. That work may be digging a ditch, washing a car, teaching a lesson, coaching a player, hitting a ball, writing a blog, exercising my body, fighting cancer, loving an enemy or saving a life. No matter who I am or where I am, if there is life in my body then there is work to be done. Doing the work glorifies God...period. None is more important in God's eyes than another, it is the willingness to work and the heart and joy put into that work that matters.
8Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
MATTHEW 28:8-20
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