I've been having a hard time writing anything lately. Some evenings it's a real struggle to do this. Sometimes, everything in me seems to say don't worry about it, God won't care if you skip a day. But I know this to be false. As I stated in an earlier blog, I feel as though I'm under conviction to write every day for a year, Satan knows that, and is trying to use anything he can to deceive me so I'll mess up. It's on these days that I really have to buckle down and write. Satan wants nothing more than to cause Gods people to do the worst thing possible. NOTHING! That's right, NOTHING! It's better to try a hundred times and fail a hundred times in our service to Jesus than it is to do nothing. Every time we sit on the couch or chair or whatever you sit on and talk about serving, but don't serve, we're just slapping the devil a big ole high five. There's an old saying that says, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." It's true! Whether failure to serve is the product of fear, or laziness, or an unfulfilled promise to do something for someone or whatever. I'm not saying that works get anybody to heaven, but I am saying that works are a byproduct of faith, and faith is what following Jesus is all about.
James 2:18 But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe- and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?
I can't sit here and make claims of doing bunches and bunches for our Lord; that would be an outright lie. I can't say that I haven't broken promises to serve either, I have. But I can say I'm doing more than I used to, and hope to do more than I am. I can also say that, with the help of our Lord, I have been able to successfully write a little something (whether good or bad) and remove one of Satan's stumbling blocks! At least for tonight!
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