Brothers,
Do
Not Grow Weary
In
Doing Good
Scripture
2
Thessalonians 3
13 Brothers,
do not grow weary in doing good.
Observation
I
wake up tired and I go to bed tired. I am sure that it must be a sign
of my old age and a badly damaged heart. But I must never get tired
of doing good! What good thing are we going to do this week! Last
week was last week. What are we going to do this week?
How
are we going to help someone else?
I
need to remind myself that there is always someone that is doing
worse than I am that needs my help.
Last
night I was at the hospital and I went to visit a person who would
have been my last person to see because it was at the end of my
shift. He was a heart patient and he was in the hospital because of
chest pains.
As
I talked to him I found out that his wife had just recently had a
stroke and she was actually also in our hospital up on the third
floor. The stroke has left her unable to speak so he wrote a note and
asked me to take it up to his wife and come back and let him know if
she was able to read the note. I took the note up to his wife and I
read part of the note to her. I prayed with her and let her know that
I was going back down to see her husband.
I
was tired. It was past time to go home. But this guy needed me to do
something that he couldn't do. He needed to get a love note up to his
wife who was just a few floors away.
“Do
not grow weary in doing good” – that verse hit home to me this
morning.
Application
I
will look for opportunities to do good.
How
about you?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, I pray for those patients that I talked to last night,
especially for this woman who had the stroke and I pray for her
husband too. I can't even imagine how hard this must be for both of
them. I pray for healing. Put on my heart people who need to be
encouraged today. People who need my help. Don't let me grow weary in
doing good.
I
pray for those who have relationship problems. I pray for those who
have been wronged and hurt by someone else. I pray that you restore
their relationship.
Help
business partners keep their word to each other. Help them be men and
women of integrity and honesty. Help them to be trustworthy. May they
honor their word and the promises that they have made to each other.
Daily
Bible Reading: 1 Kings 4,5; 2 Chronicles 2; Psalms 101; 2
Thessalonians 3
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