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BH Bulletin - Thursday 31 December 2020

31/12/2020

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Thought for the Day by Stephen Demetriou
​(Youth Minister)

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Galatians 6:7-10
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Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

Let us not become weary in doing good…
This was clearly something on Paul’s mind, he repeats almost the same phrase exactly in his letter to the Thessalonians (2 Thess 3:13)
He knows that as Christians we find it easy to become weary and tired of doing good.
We get weary because no one notices our doing good; weary because our doing good gets greeted not with thanks but anger and frustration; weary because it’s hard to do good sometimes (well most of the time!); or weary at the moment because we’re almost in Lockdown yet again…

Yep, I think Paul is on to something here – it is easy to become weary of doing good.
Are you feeling weary of doing good?

Look again at Galatians 6 as Paul dishes out a few reasons to help encourage our weary selves:
  1. V7 God cannot be mocked – in the context we see a God who knows and sees what we do, so let us not become weary in doing good, even if no one notices our Father does!
  2. V7-8 A man reaps what he sows… whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.  It’s classic farming really, you put in wheat, you won’t get barley, you’ll get wheat. Sow a life by the Spirit by doing good; this is how we grow in holiness. We take a  thousand baby steps towards Christlikeness by doing good today and tomorrow, so let us not become weary in doing good.
  3. V9 Let us not become weary of doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
    I love this. The hard times of doing good will pay off in the end. There is a harvest to come. The harvest of the Spirit filled life – Eternal life. Our Christian life and doing good may look foolish to some and downright ridiculous to others but a glorious future is coming to God’s people, so let us not become weary in doing good.
 
So church family, let us not become weary in doing good particularly in difficult times.

Today, look for opportunities to be good to all people and especially to those who belong to our church family. What could you do? How could you go out of your way to do good, to bless someone, to actively love someone?

Let us not become weary in doing good.

Stephen


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