St. Giles Evangelical Presbyterian Church

Devotional: November 18-24 by Jeff Barhite, Elder

The Lord is faithful to reveal his word. Some words he reveals in a moment, some over a few days, and some over a longer season of time. Here’s a gold nugget I received Sunday that’s been life giving for me this week.

In our study of Galatians this past Sunday morning (Adult Sunday School Class), we studied the sixth chapter of Paul’s letter to the Galatians. As we were going over that chapter, the Lord planted a seed from his Word in my heart and mind. It was Gal. 6:9, “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.” It wasn’t the focal passage of the morning, but it was one that the Lord wanted to reveal further to me.

Later that morning, when Sam Nadler was preaching, he made reference to our coming glorification. Wow. At that point, the seed God had planted just an hour and a half earlier came to life, and it’s been “growing” since. Here’s the deal…..there’s a reaping coming, even an ultimate one. We have a hope that will be realized, our glorification. We are going to be glorified! “For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord” (I Thes. 4:16-17).

Let’s face it, life can be tough, even as a believer. Yea, there are good seasons and mountain top experiences, but there are plenty of other times where it’s just plain hard to get through the day. We encounter circumstances daily that, if we let them, can drag us down and make us weary. “Let us not grow weary” wouldn’t be there in Scripture if there wasn’t that tendency in us to grow weary (our Creator knows us well, doesn’t he?).

So for today, tomorrow and the days that follow, here’s to not growing weary. Instead, here’s to being eternally minded and heavenly focused. As “first fruits,” Jesus was resurrected & glorified. He has paved the way. Our turn is coming!