Galatians 6:9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for
in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
To my Fellow Ministers and Servants, it is easy to get our
eyes off Jesus and onto the success of others.
And sometimes we marvel at the actions they, seemingly, “get
by with.” Maybe it is time to
consider that your situation is the gateway to the GREATER BLESSING because God
has reserved you to accomplish something special and dear to His heart.
In his writing, entitled OTHERS CAN…BUT YOU CAN’T, G. D. Watson says it all and says it best….
OTHERS CAN… BUT
YOU CAN’T
G. D. Watson, in Living Words
If God has called you to be really like Jesus, He will draw
you into a life of crucifixion and humility, and put upon you such demands of
obedience, that you will not be able to follow other people or measure yourself
by other Christians. In many ways, He
will seem to let other good people do things which He will not let you do.
Other Christians and ministers, who seem very religious and
useful, may push themselves, pull wires, and work schemes to carry out their
plans, but you cannot do it. And, if you
attempt it, you will meet with such failure and rebuke from the Lord as to make
you sorely penitent.
Others may boast of themselves, of their work, of their
success, of their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do any
such thing. And, if you begin it, He
will lead you into some deep mortification that will make you despise yourself
and all your good works.
Others may be allowed to succeed in making money, or may
have a legacy left to them, but it is likely God will keep you from wealth
because He wants you to have something far better than gold, namely a helpless
dependence on Him, that He may have the privilege of supplying your needs day
by day out of an unseen treasury,
The Lord may let others be honored and put forward and keep
you hidden in obscurity, because He wants you to produce some choice fragrant
fruit for His coming glory, which can only be produced in the shade. He may let others be great but keep you
small.
He may let others do a work for Him and get credit for it,
but He will make you work and toil on without knowing how much you are
doing. And then, to make your work still
more precious, He may let others get credit for the work you have done, and
thus make your reward ten times greater when Jesus comes.
The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch over you, with a
jealous love and will rebuke you for little words and feelings, or wasting your
time, which other Christians never seem to get distressed over. So make up your mind that God is an infinite
Sovereign and has a right to do as He pleases with His own.
He may not explain to you a thousand things which puzzle your
reason in His dealings with you, but if you absolutely sell yourself to be His
love slave, He will wrap you in a jealous love and bestow upon you many
blessings which come only to those who are in the inner circle.
Settle it forever, then, that you are to deal directly with
the Holy Spirit, and that He is to have the privilege of tying your tongue, or
chaining your hand or closing your eyes in ways that He does not seem to use
with others. Now when you are so possessed
with the living God that you are, in your secret heart, pleased and delighted
over this peculiar, personal, private, jealous guardianship and management of
the Holy Spirit over your life, you will have found the Vestibule of Heaven.
