October 24
We sometimes ask ourselves why we should continue to try. Why should we continue to expend our energy to maintain fiscal soundness in an economy that is inscrutable to the ordinary investor and that is unraveling under the watch of those who are tasked with maintaining its stability?
Why should we strive to keep our family together when tempers flare and wills clash at every provocation? Why not simply acknowledge our incompatibility and walk away from a bad situation? Why continue to beseech heaven on the behalf of needs that continue to go unmet? Why not simply resign to fate?
Because that’s not what the God who fashioned us intends for us to do! He has given us the power to transform our circumstances through our faithfulness—our faithfulness to work diligently to improve them, our faithfulness to strive lovingly to transform them, our faithfulness to pray fervently to overcome them!
In Hebrews 10:23, Paul says, “Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering for He who promised is faithful.” We can be faithful because the One who promised, the One we trust, is faithful. We pattern ourselves after His example, then we may be sure we will see the beneficent outcome of faithfulness!
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