October 1

God doesn’t want us to be quitters. In all things, He expects us to follow His own example and He sticks with a project, no matter what. We know that He created the earth and looked upon it and said that it was good. He fashioned it to be good, but He barely got past the first couple of pages in Genesis before things began to go awry.

The people He had fashioned for fellowship with Himself, the epitome of His creative handiwork had succumbed to the wiles of a subtle foe and had disappointed the One to Whom they owed their beauty, their intellect, their all. At that point in time, God could have destroyed everything He’d made.

He could have at least given mankind up as an unprofitable venture. But He didn’t. He stuck with His errant creation. He devised a plan that would redeem us from the destruction we had brought upon ourselves. Here we are, several thousand years later—still resisting Him—still finding Him reaching out patiently to us, still holding out a lifeline to save us from the destruction we’ve brought upon ourselves.

When we have grasped the magnitude of our salvation, when we have realized the Gift He has bestowed upon us and we have appropriated it for ourselves, He wants us to reach out to others as steadfastly as He reaches out to us. In Romans 2:7 it says, “To those who by patient persistence in well-doing seek glory and honor and immortality, He will give eternal life.” Don’t give up! Keep seeking! Keep believing! Keep sharing! Your labor is not in vain.