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我们行善,不可丧志,若不放弃,到了时候,就要收获。(加拉太书6:9

有时候,我们不介意开始做一件好事,但当我们看见最终的代价将会是什么时,我们便不想去干完它。但是我们只需要提醒自己,那些曾完成任何被世人所听到的事业的、属上帝之伟大的男女,是那些不论在顺境逆境时,都尽忠职守的人。如果我们只是忠信、尽忠职守的话,上帝能借着我们所做的事也是没有限量的。

好开始,是半成功,但如果不干完要干的事儿的话,我们将一无所成。我们与其留下未完成的工作,倒不如从来没开始它。我们不能为上主开始做一个工作却不去完成它,否则整件事情将会一败涂地。那倒不如你从来没开始干它。上主说,我们在开始干某件事儿以前,最好先坐下来,算算代价,看我们是否能完成那个建筑物或赢得那个战斗,否则的话,我们最好不去开始它。(路加福音14:28)

上主,请帮助我们记得,您是那在我们心里动了善工的“人”,而您必成全这工。(腓力比书1:6)—请帮助我们对您托给我们的差事尽忠职守,直到它们被完成,或您告诉我们是离开的时候为止。

 

DAILY 365

June  8

 “Let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not” (Galatians 6:9)

Sometimes we don’t mind beginning a good work, but when we see what the final cost is going to be, we don’t want to complete it. Well begun is half done, but if we don’t finish the thing, nothing is done. Jesus said we should count the cost first before we start any big project—from building a tower to waging war—to make sure we’ll be able to finish it (Luke 14:28–32). If we begin a job for the Lord, we need to see it through. Otherwise it would have been better if we had never started.

We need to remind ourselves that the men and women who have accomplished the most for God were mostly ordinary people who stuck to their jobs through thick and thin. There’s really no limit to what God can do through us, too, if we’ll just be faithful and stick to it.

Help us, Lord, to remember that You’re the One who has begun a good work in us, and what You have started You have promised to complete (Philippians 1:6). Give us faith and patience and perseverance to stick to the tasks You have given us until they’re finished or You have something else for us. Amen.