In reading 2 Peter Chapter One I was given the word picture of swimming against the tide. Seems like every commercial wants to fill our empty hole with empty promises. Living in the world without a passion for the word of God and things of God is like treading water. If we're not going against the flow we are still losing ground. It's tough to go in the opposite direction of the world. However, if you think about it we are not of this world, we are sojourners here and heaven is our home. In Heaven they are not going the way of the world.
The idea of working in heaven is foreign to many people. Yet Scripture clearly teaches it. When God created Adam, he "took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it" (Genesis 2:15). Work was part of the original Eden. It was part of a perfect human life.
God Himself is a worker. He didn't create the world and then retire. Jesus said, "My Father is always at His work to this very day, and I, too, am working" (John 5:17). Jesus found great satisfaction in His work. "‘My food,' Jesus said, ‘is to do the will of Him who sent me and to finish His work'" (John 4:34).
So life is not supposed to be a breeze so keep on swimming. Sure it requires work and yes work is a four letter word but that’s what we were created for. We were created to praise Him and again let’s face it sometimes that’s work. I mean some days I don’t feel like praising God but when I do it anyway—I feel like praising after all.
If you’re feeling weary in well doing read 2 Peter. Get in the word and let it get in you. Peter was facing death and this is what he wanted us to know so we could be successful in the days we have left on earth.
Advice for the day? Just keep swimming.
The idea of working in heaven is foreign to many people. Yet Scripture clearly teaches it. When God created Adam, he "took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it" (Genesis 2:15). Work was part of the original Eden. It was part of a perfect human life.
God Himself is a worker. He didn't create the world and then retire. Jesus said, "My Father is always at His work to this very day, and I, too, am working" (John 5:17). Jesus found great satisfaction in His work. "‘My food,' Jesus said, ‘is to do the will of Him who sent me and to finish His work'" (John 4:34).
So life is not supposed to be a breeze so keep on swimming. Sure it requires work and yes work is a four letter word but that’s what we were created for. We were created to praise Him and again let’s face it sometimes that’s work. I mean some days I don’t feel like praising God but when I do it anyway—I feel like praising after all.
If you’re feeling weary in well doing read 2 Peter. Get in the word and let it get in you. Peter was facing death and this is what he wanted us to know so we could be successful in the days we have left on earth.
Advice for the day? Just keep swimming.
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