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Hang in there!
'At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up.' Galatians 6:9
Are you feeling fed up? Had enough? Ready to throw the towel in and quit? Sick of not being appreciated, wanted or valued? Thinking about 'sacking off' school, college, uni, friends or family because you just can't take anymore? Listen, hang in there! 'Don't get tired of doing what is good ... at just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up.'
There are no short cuts with God so we can miss out on so much great God stuff - just because we give up too early.
A man named William Wilberforce had been pushing the British Parliament to abolish the slave trade. He was about to give up when his friend John Wesley heard of his campaign, and from his deathbed Wesley wrote to Wilberforce, '
Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and of devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them stronger than God? O be not weary in well doing! Go on, in the name of God and in the power of His might, till even American slavery shall vanish away before it.
' Wesley died six days later. Wilberforce fought for 42 more years. Three days before his own death, slavery was abolished in Britain. Eventually it was abolished in America too.
Hang in there - what God has in store for you is worth any price you have to pay.
written by Bob Gass
'At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up.' Galatians 6:9
Are you feeling fed up? Had enough? Ready to throw the towel in and quit? Sick of not being appreciated, wanted or valued? Thinking about 'sacking off' school, college, uni, friends or family because you just can't take anymore? Listen, hang in there! 'Don't get tired of doing what is good ... at just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up.'
There are no short cuts with God so we can miss out on so much great God stuff - just because we give up too early.
A man named William Wilberforce had been pushing the British Parliament to abolish the slave trade. He was about to give up when his friend John Wesley heard of his campaign, and from his deathbed Wesley wrote to Wilberforce, '
Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and of devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them stronger than God? O be not weary in well doing! Go on, in the name of God and in the power of His might, till even American slavery shall vanish away before it.
' Wesley died six days later. Wilberforce fought for 42 more years. Three days before his own death, slavery was abolished in Britain. Eventually it was abolished in America too.
Hang in there - what God has in store for you is worth any price you have to pay.
written by Bob Gass
