DOING GOD’S WILL
Doing God’s will is not always easy for us. There is always our own will to compete with, and often our own wants, ideas, desires, and the things that seem urgent or important get in the way when we want to do God’s will. But there are great rewards in doing God’s will above our own.
God’s people had just begun the good work of restoring the temple of the LORD that had been demolished by the Babylonians. They hadn’t started out that way. They had only been rebuilding their own houses. Now it was different and they were willingly restoring the temple.
That was when God gave them an amazing message.“Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the LORD. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the LORD. Work, for I am with you, declares the LORD of Hosts, according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not.” (Hag 2:4-5).
So this is my message for you today. When you are doing God’s will, be strong, do it well, keep at it, fear not. If we are doing God’s will, He will be with us. Doing God’s will is going to be so much more rewarding than doing our own. (- Robert Prins)