Growth Becomes Its Own Reward

We’re caught in a trap

Suspicious Minds by Mark James 

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We are focused on the right individual perspective of things; we have the vision and can say, “I know this is what God wants me to do.” But we have not yet learned to get into God’s stride. If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time of great personal growth ahead.

Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest, October 13 (web version)

When God calls us and we see He has an assignment for us, but we can’t see how we will accomplish it, do we become discouraged? Moses did. He went into the desert and tended sheep for forty years. 

Does the task require growth? Do our perspectives need to be expanded? Do we balk at the scope of the undertaking? Jesus was stressed to the point of sweating blood as He prayed in the garden of Gethsemane.

[…] He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death: death on a cross.

Philippians 2:8 NASB2020

We are human. God knows we are human. He wouldn’t call us to a mission He’s not prepared to see us through. If we need strength, He will strengthen us. If we need wisdom, He will mature us and expand our experience. If we need courage, He will train us to rely on him. If we lack vision, He will give us bigger (and sometimes scarier) dreams. And if we begin to feel entangled in hopeless futility, He promises to respond with miracles and supernatural provision. The required growth becomes its own reward.

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