20:1-43 - Sometimes we say,
‘I can’t’, when we mean, ‘I won’t’! We are ‘busy here and there’ - too
busy for God, for doing His will, for obeying His Word. Is this a case
of ‘I can’t’? No! It is ‘I won’t’. We choose. We decide how we will use
our time. God looks at our life. He sees what is most important to us
and He says, ‘You yourself have decided it’. He sees that our choices
have been self-centred rather than Christ-centred. He says, ‘So shall
your judgment be’ (40). Can we change? Yes! God says, ‘Come, strengthen
yourself, and consider well what you have to do’ (12). There is a
decision to be made. We must be obedient to God’s Word: ‘Be strong in
the Lord’ (Ephesians 6:10). Our strength is not in ourselves. It is in
the Lord. Wait on the Lord and renew your strength (Isaiah 40:31).
‘Strengthen yourself’ - in the Lord.
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