Tough but True

This week’s reading:

Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Matthew 5:11-12

When I left the mine I was working on, I flippantly used to say that the hardest thing I’ve ever done was changing a final drive on a 120 ton rear dumping production machine. This job entailed working physically for 48 hours non-stop which pushed you to the limits of human endurance. Grown, tough men would get physically sick from exhaustion. But it was also the kind of job that gained you the respect of the entire mine once you had done it.

Then I became a Christian!

Over time, I have learned that God often asks us to do the most challenging things in His name in His time.He always wants us to move from where we are. And moving is not easy – it was never meant to be.

One of the things He asks of us is to put ourselves out there!
Are you offering Jesus in your home, to your friends, in your workplace or business in His time?

The hardest, but most rewarding things we will ever do, is God’s will at the times He asks, not the times we think we might.

Blessings