@gregsurratt brought us a great devotional today at the start of our time together at the @leadnet learning community.
Weariness and discouragement happens to us all.
10 things that cause it…
Too much work
Staff issues
Money Challenges
Worship Leaders!
Fighting Ecclesiastical Systems
Biting Sheep
My own Expectations
Family problems
Health
Your own sin
Some of these things you can solve. You have the power to fix them if you have the courage. Sometimes you are just going to live with them because you can’t.
Andy Stanley would call this a tension to be manage rather than a problem to be solved.
Hope is the antidote to discouragement.
This scripture says – YOU WILL REAP A HARVEST
The Sovereign God has promised this
You will!
When?
At the proper time.
When is that – when I resign as general manager of the universe and let him deal with the size of the harvest, and the time of the harvest.
God is omniscient (so it’s hard to surprise him) and he is at work on the solutions before we even know there’s a problem.
What if I had quit at that low point a while ago? We would never have seen the harvest.
The harvest is coming. How are you preparing for it?
Most times when you want to quit – it’s too early.