READ:
MATTHEW 21:28-31
Many people
know the right thing to do in a given circumstance. Some even plan or promise
or determine to do that good thing. But only a negligible few that take the
step end up with the blessing. Are you among those who go immediately to do
that which is right?
In today’s reading, a man called his two sons and asked them to go and work in his vineyard. One said, ‘I go, sir’ meaning he could count it as already done. The other grumbled and refused. But later he realised his wrongdoing, repented and went to work in the vineyard. The one who had resolved to go began to procrastinate and in the end did not make good on his promise.
Which of the sons do you resemble? Some Christians operate in the realm of lip service. If you listen to their boasts and the great promises to serve God that proceed from their mouths, you will conclude you have not even started. Do not take any notice of them. They do not go beyond lip service. Their hearts are far from God. All they do – praise, worship, prayers, and service – start and end at their lips; there is nothing from the heart. No wonder they do not qualify for God’s blessings.
The three lepers in Samaria, having benefited from the spoils of their enemies, said they would go and inform others. They went. And as they did, they began a journey to stardom. We read about them today because they went. Those who go for God, always become great. Moses would have died unknown in the desert if he had not gone. But he obeyed God and went to Egypt and he became a god to Pharaoh and his name because immortalised. Those who go for God are always promoted. Philip went for God and he was promoted from deacon to evangelist.
Today God is still asking, “Whom shall I send and who will go for us?” Arise and go for the Lord. Take that step into disobedience and you will be on your way to stardom. Stop procrastinating. Go now and share Jesus with others.
In today’s reading, a man called his two sons and asked them to go and work in his vineyard. One said, ‘I go, sir’ meaning he could count it as already done. The other grumbled and refused. But later he realised his wrongdoing, repented and went to work in the vineyard. The one who had resolved to go began to procrastinate and in the end did not make good on his promise.
Which of the sons do you resemble? Some Christians operate in the realm of lip service. If you listen to their boasts and the great promises to serve God that proceed from their mouths, you will conclude you have not even started. Do not take any notice of them. They do not go beyond lip service. Their hearts are far from God. All they do – praise, worship, prayers, and service – start and end at their lips; there is nothing from the heart. No wonder they do not qualify for God’s blessings.
The three lepers in Samaria, having benefited from the spoils of their enemies, said they would go and inform others. They went. And as they did, they began a journey to stardom. We read about them today because they went. Those who go for God, always become great. Moses would have died unknown in the desert if he had not gone. But he obeyed God and went to Egypt and he became a god to Pharaoh and his name because immortalised. Those who go for God are always promoted. Philip went for God and he was promoted from deacon to evangelist.
Today God is still asking, “Whom shall I send and who will go for us?” Arise and go for the Lord. Take that step into disobedience and you will be on your way to stardom. Stop procrastinating. Go now and share Jesus with others.
MEMORIZE:
PROVERBS 14:23 –In all labor there is profit, but idle chatter leads only to
poverty.
