Stay On the Wall
Many times, and all too often, we find ourselves being distracted while working the works which the Lord has assigned to our hands. These distractions come to take our minds away from the vital tasks which the Lord has assigned us to do. There is nothing more satisfying to the devil than to disrupt the works of the Lord. Everything the Lord assigns for us to do has value and is of great importance. The result of your completion of your God given assignment is another defeat of the enemy’s advances. The enemy’s aim is to disrupt and to stop the works of the Lord at any cost. So stay on top of the wall on which the Lord has assigned for you to work and don’t come down until the job is fully completed. I realize the load gets heavy and down right confusing at times; even sometimes to the point where we might get discouraged and want to give up. But when the going gets rough, that’s the time when we should try the hardest.
Discouragement is a terrible thing. When we are faced with the atmosphere of severe discouragement, we tend to want to throw up our hands and say “what’s the use?” These types of discouragements oftentimes come through persons who are quite familiar to us; and all too often from someone in whom we have had great trust. They are oftentimes the ones in whom we have entrusted with some of our innermost secrets.
In the Book of Nehemiah, the Lord had placed on Nehemiah’s heart to rebuild the wall; but distraction came through Sanballat, and those who were familiar to him, to distract the progress and successful completion of the wall. But Nehemiah, determined to complete the rebuilding of the wall, remained continuous in prayer while at the same time being ever so watchful set up a defense along with continuous watch, and the rebuild was successfully completed.
We are God’s church; working together as God’s people, following the flow laid out in God’s planned agenda, having a determination to accomplish all that the Lord has assigned for us to do. And in our effort to accomplish our goal we sometimes are faced with distractions from areas of our life which is most familiar to us. That is, from our families, our places of employment, and all too often from those in our place of worship. These are the times when our hurt is most severe, because these are the persons we trust the most and who can get the closest to us. Remember, it was Judas who exposed who Jesus was and it was Cain who killed Abel. It was also Joseph’s brothers who sold him into slavery.
Through it all, we must be ever so aware that we sometimes go through such distractions so that we can learn that God is yet true to His promises, that He will never leave us or forsake us. We should always be assured that if such distractions get to us, they had to be seen by God first. Let us be absolutely confident that God is already in each of our tomorrows and that He is positively with us right now. He also knows all about our yesterdays. So He is intimately familiar with each of our yesterdays, each of our todays, and He is already in all of our tomorrows. Therefore, He can’t fail us.
Therefore, remain vigilant; be ever so aware that our distractions come to force us to give up, and to come down from the wall on which the Lord has placed us. Let each of us stay on our walls and not come down until the job has achieved success. Let us let the world know that we are yet on the job for our Lord. Let each of us be absolutely attentive to completing the assignment on our assigned wall. Stay on your wall.
Tags: distractions, encouragement, faith, Nehemiah, spiritual strength
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