Thursday, July 14, 2011

Doing hard things for His sake

I was just reading in my bible about Saul being converted in Acts 9 and a few verse's really stuck out to me. Maybe because my 13 year old sister was complaining about having to help do a CEF VBS next week. She was fine at CYIA when it came to teaching lessons, songs and such. And even came to me once at camp telling me how good she did at the lesson and how happy she was about it. But when we got home from camp she has been complaining a lot about how hard she thinks everything is. But anyways so tonight as I was reading my bible I could hear her complaining about how hard it is to teach the lessons and I asked her "did you think it would be easy?" she replied that nothing is ever easy. So than I asked her if she thought serving God would be easy and she said she no, that's it's not. I than read to her the verse's in Acts 9 that stuck out to me.  Here it is Acts 9:15-16 “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel.  I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.” She didn't complain about it for the rest of the evening.
Part of why these verses stick out to me is 

  • God said "this man is my chosen instrument..." we have been chosen by God to tell others about him. Chosen. That is something to think about. Chosen by God, the creator of the universe :) That is huge!
  • Than in verse 16 "I will show him how much he must suffer for my name." God did not say that serving him would be easy. It will be hard. But will it be rewarding? Yes!!! 
I will share a bit more later about something else these verses reminded me of :) but for now it is time to say farewell and goodnight.
In His Name,
Karis

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