A little mid week encouragement since I won’t be blogging this weekend. God bless you sweet friends…
Do you ever feel like love is a waste of time? Or you’ve invested in something for Jesus and there appeared to be no fruit.
I admit I have thought at times, “Jesus, there appears to be no fruit here, what was that about?”
He’s super fun. His response, “It’s not about what you see. Are you willing to continue on out of love for Me?” Yep I am!
Love is costly (our human nature yields to God to put others first).
When love flows from God to us and through us, it’s a tremendous blessing.
It’s all for HIS glory, not our own.
Those who abide in God, love. Those who do not love, do not know God (1 John 4:8).
It’s so much easier to only look out for ourselves. Sometimes it seems being selfish gets you further in this life. Yet, it isn’t the life God calls us to.
Why not live for yourself? Because every seed sown will reap an eventual harvest. And this life is temporary. Eternity is forever. God calls us to look for opportunities to do good for others (Gal 6:10); not for our personal gain, to look good, or to win friends, but to demonstrate what He’s like to the world. He blesses us to be a blessing. He’s a good, loving, and generous God. He’s beyond generous. Also blessed doesn’t always speak to the immediate.
Some harvests for Jesus you won’t see until heaven. Some are storing up treasures in heaven where they do not decay and others on earth which will fade away. Some things that seemed insignificant to you may have changed a life or the course of history. If it brings God glory, we pursue it. Being with Him leads to a life of love, reckless abandon to love, radical generosity, and looking out for others. His heart becomes our heart. What matters to Him, matters to us. The people He loves, we begin to love like Him.
I leave you with these verses.
“…let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not,”~Galatians 6:9.
“So then, let’s work for the good of all whenever we have an opportunity, and especially for those in the household of faith,”~Gal 6:10.
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself,”~Phil 2:3.
You are loved and continually prayed for!
Love,
Erin
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Yes, at times I do feel this way. I continue, to God be the glory. Thank you so much, I appreciate you @erin_lamb ☺
You are so loved!