Remember Who You Did It For!! / Mrs Amber Garcia

 

Mrs Amber Garcia

 

Remember Who You Did It For!!

There’s a quote I love and it hangs in our Dinning Room.  It’s a great reminder of who we do it for.  It’s called 
“Do It Anyway”
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.

There are so many forms of distraction that will get hurled at us.  We must keep our focus on the main thing – The Lord!  My favorite verse is I Samuel 12:24, “Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart:  for consider how great things he hath done for you.”  This helps put things back into perspective for me.  

Remember that as you live for the Lord, persecution will come!  II Timothy 3:12, “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.”  We don’t always embrace that part of Christianity but recently I heard a message my husband preached at Bay View Baptist Church in Washington, Illinois, on “Troubled Waters Heal.”  He reminded us that the Lord calls our trials PRECIOUS!  Now, I think the Lord is precious, The Bible is precious, but TRIALS?  I had viewed trials as something to endure, not something to embrace as precious.  1 Peter 1:7 says, “That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise, and honor, and glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ:”  The thing about trials is that, if you let them, they bring you closer to understanding the heart of God.  Our relationship with Him goes to new depths as He pulls us aside to be tested and tried.  God sees our circumstances from the other side and He alone knows what is necessary to mold us into the servant He needs.  No matter what comes our way, let’s stay focused on the Lord, because in the end, that’s all that will matter.