tired – Brian Friedl https://brianfriedl.com Making Your Life's Mission Possible Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:57:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.17 64732294 Encouragement For The Tired Soul https://brianfriedl.com/encouragement-for-the-tired-soul/ https://brianfriedl.com/encouragement-for-the-tired-soul/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:57:48 +0000 http://brianfriedl.com/encouragement-for-the-tired-soul/ Doing the good work our Father in heaven  prepared for us to walk in can be very draining.   When you invest in the lives of others and bear their burdens, the potential exists for our bodies and minds to take a beating.  

We must make sure that the fuel for your ministry isn’t just your strength or skill.  Knowledge of the Father’s love and the eternal comfort He has given us is like and endless supply of food and water as we minister in the desert. 

I love the phrase “good hope”.  There are many choices for the objects of our hope. I hope that snow only falls on grass.  Somehow it never does.  I hoped the Packers would win. Where did that get me?  The hope we have in our salvation, through Christ,  cannot be compared with any earthly hope.  For it is always good and results is righteousness. It is a hope that never disappoints but instead is always increasing faith, more hope, and love.  We have that hope because of God’s marvelous grace.  Remember this was given to us while we were yet sinners(Rom. 5:8 NASB). How much more hope do we have now that we are children of God and see His goodness!

One other quick observation: Paul prays for hearts to be comforted and strengthened in every good work and word.  The goodness of God should be spurring us on to good words and deeds.  How can we contain the goodness of God?  For it was designed to fill us to overflowing; hat others may be filled to overflowing and so on.  

May your hearts be comforted and strengthened today as you work for Him in word and in deed!

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