Let us not be weary in well doing
Galatians 6:9 “Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
The creature must find a resting place. And that resting place is in the Will of the Creator.
(I use creature and Creator here, because our first responsibility to God is as God. Of course we can only find rest for our souls in Christ. [Matthew 11:28-30].
But to rest in God as Creator….is to know and surrender to: He created, He chose, He purposed, He willed. If we find rest there….it is rest of being…and that translates to surrender and joy of our own life.)
“Weary” is to be weak or fail in heart….to feel so tired from labors that you can not do anything…
…and as Christians, we are not to let this happen.
2 Thessalonians 3:13 “But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.”
But how does it happen, that well doing, can make us tired….weary? Because we forget to love Jesus in them….and only perform right actions.
The Lord said:
Jeremiah 31:25 “For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”
“Satiated” means to bathe, to abundantly satisfy, to fill.
We sometimes forget that the Lord is our only satisfaction in this world…our only way we are filled in our empty places in our souls and lives (Matthew 5:6)
(I am going to use an example the Lord used: Luke 7:36-50
Jesus had come to Simon’s house by invitation….as a guest. Simon…or his servants….should have washed Jesus feet.
This was a tradition….based on goodwill. Everyone wore sandals and the roads were dusty. To enter a house, the house owner would wash the dust and dirt off the guests feet….to show how welcome and glad they were that they had traveled there.
Yet Simon had not. He had let Jesus come…..invited Him……true, he had prepared food for Him there. But no welcoming kiss….no washing of the road’s dust away.
Just sit down……and let me look good.
But then a woman….a sinner came in and washed Jesus feet with her tears….and kissed his feet. Jesus forgave her sins!
Oh my! Thought Simon…..but then Jesus showed him the real lesson he needed to learn.
Simon, Jesus said…..this woman had many sins.
Yet her sins, which were many, are forgiven…for she came to Me in sorrow for them….and in love for Me.
You have sins, Simon….but you have not sorrowed for them….nor shown love for Me….even as a house guest. You have gone on, in show, but the real value of Me here, at your supper, you have missed.
I pray that we will not miss out of Christ’s visiting us….fellowship with us….or forgiveness.)
We sometimes grow weary….even in the well doing of religious things….because we are busy for Christ…..but not in love with Christ.
Without love for Christ, we become weary easily.
As Christians, we need to see, that world is not our friend….we are only traveling through it….to glorify Him.
First, we are working in a world that hates us….as it hated Christ.
1 Peter 2:20-21 “….but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow His steps:”
Second we are working in a defiled world….one which eagerly wants us to join it…..and there is the battle.
We are walking in a “dirty, dusty” world. And we need to be cleansed by Jesus Christ every day….from the defilement of the world. Like the dust of the road….it clings to us….even though we do not roll in it.
1 John 1:9-10 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.”
Third, we often forget that God will correct us, even as His children.
Proverbs 3:11 “My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of His correction:”
Hebrews 12:5 “And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him:”
Fourth, we often forget to stay under His shadow, but venture out where we should not….and often get “burned”.
Isaiah 32:2 “And a Man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great Rock in a weary land.”
Fifth, we forget that we will fail….and are to repent and get up and go on with the Lord.
We are to grow in grace…..reaching out to the goal of Christ….and let Him teach us…as He will…”here a little, and there a little”.
Isaiah 28:9-10, 12 “Whom shall He teach knowledge? And whom shall He make to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept: line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
To Whom He said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing:…”
Again I want to stress that our rest is in Christ….in God.
We are to find this rest….and maintain that fellowship with Him.
Isaiah 40:31 “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;…”
How?
…..”they shall mount up with wings as eagles;” (they shall have support to be above their circumstances…and understanding, as one which sees the way God sees from above.)
…”they shall run, and not be weary;” (They shall be enabled to run their course without giving into the trials and troubles around them.)
….”and they shall walk, and not faint.” (They shall continue learning with Me until the end. “Well done, thou good and faithful servant”)
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