Keep Doing Good
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What do you do when you’re doing everything right and nothing seems to change? Faithfulness is still worth it, even when the reward hasn’t come yet.
Daniel Burgos turns to Proverbs 14:14 and its promise that the faithless will be repaid and the good rewarded. The trouble is timing. It’s easy to do right when you see results or get recognized. It’s harder when you’re working hard, and nobody notices, staying faithful in a marriage that’s still difficult, watching someone else take the credit at work, or living for God without seeing anything come of it.
Jesus spent His life serving, healing, teaching, forgiving, and doing the Father’s will, and in return He got rejection, betrayal, false accusations, and a cross. From the outside, His obedience could have looked like it led nowhere. But He kept going and trusted the Father, and three days later the resurrection proved the story wasn’t over. When you’re tempted to ask “What’s the point?”, remember that God sees what people don’t: the conversation nobody heard, the temptation you walked away from, the time you chose forgiveness over revenge, the day you showed up when you didn’t feel like it. This isn’t about earning applause. It’s about becoming the man God called you to be. As Paul writes in Galatians 6:9, the harvest comes at the proper time if we don’t give up. That means God’s timing, not ours. So keep serving, keep loving, keep forgiving, keep praying, keep following Jesus. Don’t let a delayed reward talk you out of doing what’s right.
Verse of the Day
“The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.”
Proverbs 14:14
https://www.bible.com/bible/59/pro.14.ESV
Your Daily Man-Up Challenge:
Identify one area where you’ve been tempted to give up because you haven’t seen the results you hoped for. Ask God for strength to stay faithful, and take one step of faithfulness in that area today.
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