Eternal Work

When Philip left the crowds of Samaria who looked to him as the leader of a great spiritual awakening and went to some deserted wilderness road, he surely must have wondered what in the world the Lord was doing.  As he went in obedience he could not have imagined that he was going from a movement of the Spirit which was localized to one which would go beyond borders into a part of the world where Christ had not yet been proclaimed.  As we read the end of the 8th chapter of Acts we read the rest of the story that reminds us a stone thrown in a pond never stops creating ripples.

 

Perhaps, never is an exaggeration, but surely it is no exaggeration when we think about the work of God.  If we believe that God dwells in us and is at work in and through us, it should not stretch us too much to come to the place of knowing that what God does has no ending point.  When He uses us to touch one life, the touch of that touched life will touch others, and that life still others. God may do some things in extraordinary and unbelievable ways, but so much is accomplished one step at a time.

 

What we often forget is that God is not hurried as we are hurried.  If something He has planned takes a hundred years, or a thousand, it is no big deal to Him.  And, if we are a small part of this work of His, our lives certainly have a worth and value which is unseen by those around us.  Actually, we not even see it ourselves.  How many times have we been tempted to think that what we have done for God has not counted for much?  Think it no more.  Give thanks for the way He chooses to include us in eternal work that has no end.