Hard Work Pays Off

"Hard work for God ultimately pays off a great reward". I am so blessed with the lives of Charles Spurgeon and David Livingstone. I could see in their lives how they valued industry and this really manifested in their personal lives. David, at his young age, experienced to  work in a cotton factory while Spurgeon also came from a humble state, not being a degree holder, had spent so many time for personal studies without a formal education. Then, God never treated them as a garbage despite their status in life. God has honored their diligence and helped them to be the person that God wants them to be.

Not to brag about my being a studious student, I am thankful to God for putting me a desire to love learning. Ever since at my young age, I craved for knowledge and I put a great interest in it. I thanked God that since I became a Christian, I have learned not only to chase knowledge but to ask God's wisdom above all. Honestly speaking, I could say that I know a lot but truly I am too lazy to apply most of the great principles I have learned in life. It's not enough to say that you have an idea about something but in practically speaking, you just have less hands-on experience. I praise God for bringing me here at BTC because I have realized that to be a Christian is also to bear fruit and it can be seen through your works. In the Scriptures, we can find the sin of omission, "So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin" (James 4:17). Wisdom speaks louder than knowledge. It is dishonoring God if we just hide the light that is in us because He wants us to let the light shine to the world. How can a Christian influence the world if he or she doesn't act out what he or she knows or believes?

I am so very guilty to God even until this time that I am so poor in wisdom. Every time I see this weakness of mine, all the more I get closer to Him. What an encouragement to see the lives of my co-believers in Christ walking in wisdom. Yet in my case I should not pity myself and even being hard on myself, knowing that God is patient with me and He never gives up on me and He never will. I know that God gives chance to His children. I can choose the path of wisdom daily and I can't do it by myself. From this day forward, I want to be serious in praying to God to be more diligent in doing good for Him. It's because my works for Him will never be in vain. I want to encourage myself each day that I will not grow weary in doing good for at the proper time I will reap a harvest, if I don't give up (Gal. 6:9).