Worth It

 Just wondering if you did something this summer that required you to tap into God’s strength, His perspective, to rely on Him… an effort that that might have tugged on you to depend on Him? Could be something small or big…

This was the first verse I memorized. I was in college and I had already decided Jesus was my savior, but this was the first time I started considering Him being my LORD. I learned it in the NIV… let us throw off every sin that so easily entangles. I imagined sin like a vine growing around my legs tripping me up in my attempt to run. With this, I cut off a sin in my life. I was in a relationship with someone I loved and we were having sex outside of marriage. He was curious about God but in a phase of unbelief. My first cut was I ended that relationship. I decided I’d like to run after God without being tripped up by sin. Soon after I hit another road block. Would I spend my life serving God or money? Finally, I hit one more, I did not believe Jesus’ blood could cover my sin. Until I heard the blood of Jesus is powerful, powerful enough to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So, I learned not to stand in my own good deeds, but on the throne of grace, cleansed by His blood.

I think about things that seem #worthit… things that are worth it come at a cost. They require something of us. It might be worth it to choose to rest. What’s the cost of rest? Productivity? Self reliance? Peace? Unrest?

I ask again… what’s something you did this summer that was #worthit & what did you learn about God in it?

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.”

Hebrews 12:1-3, 5 ESV

https://bible.com/bible/59/heb.12.1-5.ESV