Difficulty Following Through

Wednesday November 4, 2020

Many of us have never been disciplined in the art of following through on the commitments we make. We start something and then get tired when it takes more effort than we are willing to give. Committed relationships often suffer from this type of attitude. While a relationship is contributing to our needs, we are fine but when it starts requiring effort that we are unwilling to give, then we are ready to walk away rather than work on the challenges.

If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? (Romans 8:32 MSG)

Because of our Heavenly Father’s love for us, Jesus was willing to die in our place for the sins which separate us from our loving God. Through forgiveness of our sins, our broken relationship with God is restored and we have life with Him forever. Jesus endured the ridicule of people around Him and the agonizing pain of dying on the cross so that He could fulfill God’s perfect plan of salvation.

We despised him and rejected him—a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief…He was despised, and we didn’t care. Yet it was our grief he bore, our sorrows that weighed him down. (Isaiah 53:3-4a TLB)

What is required for us to follow through and be a doer of God’s will? When we repent of our sins and turn our will and life over to the care of God, we receive everything we need to live the life God has planned for us. The Scriptures teach us the ways of God and we need to follow through on what they say, regardless of our feelings. Before Jesus went to the cross, He asked, “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me” but in obedience to God’s will finished with, “Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.” (Matthew 26:39b NLT)

Following through requires that we be like Jesus and do the will of God no matter the cost.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, I am weak but You are strong. Please strengthen me to follow through and do the right thing in all my affairs. Amen

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