Don’t Quit Your Day Job!

“For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed.

Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.

Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

All these are the beginning of birth pains.”

Matthew 24:5-8

 

We look at society today and all that is happening around the world and in our own nation.

The question that forms in many peoples’ minds is: “Can it get any worse?”

The answer is yes.

It can and it will.

But as we have looked at this week, the believer has a choice.

We can try to ‘weather’ the hard times in our own strength

Or

We can admit our weakness and call out to God for our needs.

Maybe you would like it if I said to you that earthquakes, flooding, wars and disease only strike those who do not know God.

I can’t.

Could it be different?

Yes.

God spared the Israelites of all the plagues that came on Egypt.

But more often than not, that is not the case.

Some might read into that that God doesn’t really love them and so they face the struggles that they do just like those who do not know God.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

For every Daniel rescued from the Lion’s den there is a Stephen privileged to be martyred for His Lord.

For every Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego who escape the fiery furnace there are saints shining inside prison walls and bringing the Good News of the Gospel in a place most of us would never set foot in.

In your struggles learn to admit to God that your strength is not enough and only with His strength can you fulfill what He has for you in

“…the midst of a crooked and perverse generation.”

As always, Jesus set the example for us as He declared:

“I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day:

the night cometh, when no man can work.”

Work while it is day.

Don’t try to complete His work in your own strength.

Don’t quit your ‘day’ job, instead complete it in His strength and anointing.