We had an excellent conference over the past one and a half days with 3 experienced speakers from Australia. The main speaker is a father of a cancer stricken son.
Despite this personal pain that he is currently going through he has still taken the time to travel the world to bless the Kingdom of God. He did not take time off to only spend with his son (which he does when he is back home) but deliberately pursues after God's purposes. He is doing everything by the empowering of the Holy Spirit to redeem the time for a world which is eroding into lawlessness!
Paul wrote with the same sense of conviction in his second letter to the Thessalonians church....."This is positive proof of the just and right judgment of God to the end that you may be deemed deserving of His kingdom (a plain token of His fair verdict which designs that you should be made and counted worthy of the kingdom of God), for the sake of which you are also suffering. (it is a fair decision) since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with distress and affliction those who distress and afflict you. And to (recompense) you who are so distressed and afflicted (by granting you) relief and rest along with us (your fellow sufferers) when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in a flame of fire, To deal out retribution (chastisement and vengeance) upon those who do not know or perceive or become acquainted with God, and (upon those) who ignore and refuse to obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(2 Thes 1:5-8 Amp version).
There is no time to be idlers or shirkers in His kingdom. The lost world out there needs all of us to work to redeem the times we live in. Lawlessness is increasing and everything else is deteriorating in our society.
Let us work whilst it is still day!
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