Daily Devotion Matthew 25:21

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. -Matthew 25:21

I have to admit - I'm stealing this devotion, loosely, from a devotion I was reading this morning.  I like this idea, though, of just staying faithful.  Rebuilding my files onto my computer has been a long and stressful task.  I know - next time, don't wait a week to back up your files only to lose them.  Okay, okay, I've learned my lesson.  But, just having this monumental task plus still having to do the everyday tasks that I already had has been a bit overwhelming.  Man, I don't think I've slept more than 4 1/2 hours on any given night because I'm up late to catch up on housework and up early to catch up on schoolwork and I'm still not caught up yet. Now, follow my train of thought here:  the last couple of weeks have been nothing but absolute drudgery.  It's times like these were those 'give-up' thoughts creep into your head.  You know, those justification thoughts for not continuing to serve the Lord - satan whispering in your ear:  'You don't need to go to church tonight.  It's JUST Wednesday night.'  'You don't need to go to the prayer breakfast this morning.  You'll see everyone tomorrow.'  You know those thoughts that start you thinking that the Lord won't mind if you miss this or that because He knows that you have to do this work.  He gave you this job to do, so He'll give you a little grace on having to go to church this time......Well, thankfully, God is a gracious God and IF I did miss church, He would give me grace.  But, is that being faithful?  Or, is that taking matters into your own hands to get something done and not letting God take care of the details for you?  I think so often we see these mega gatherings on tv, or even experience them in person, and everyone's singing praises to the Lord with their hands raised and completely enraptured and we want that all the time.  When we don't have that all the time, we get bored, or we wonder if we're doing the right thing because we're just not FEELING it.  I think that often women fall into this trap of wanting to feel everything and when we don't, we just give up.  Life is 10% of the mountain top experiences and 90% of the everyday stuff.  Look at Moses.  How long did he have to endure dragging a bunch of whining Hebrews through the desert before he got his mountain top experience?  Boy, give me two days of that and I'd want to give up.  Imagine, day after day of "we don't have enough food" (you have to say it in your best whine) or "we don't have the right food".  Ugh!  Drudgery!  But Moses was faithful over more than a few things, through all of his doubts and misgivings, and so he was allowed that mountain top experience.  This week has been a good test of my mettle.  I've been staying faithful, though, even though sometimes I'm just not feeling it.  I'm staying prayed up and read up and I'm getting through the drudgery.  I challenge you to do the same.  When you think that you don't have time for your devotions, just do them.  When you think you don't have time for church, just go.  God will work out the details.  Just stay faithful and God has promised that you will enter into the joy of the Lord.