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Unanswered
Letters
There are many times when we begin a
certain task that God lays on our hearts and
because we think our efforts
are minimal and
not making a difference, we quit the job that
God told us
to pursue.
The enemy loves to plant seeds of doubt
and lure us into
thinking that we are not
capable of making a difference in this world,
but
with God's help we can overcome and
fulfill the destiny that God has for
every believer.
If you are going through a situation of doubting
your task unto the Lord, then I hope this story
will bless and encourage
you to never quit
what God has laid on your heart because
you may never
know of the lives
that you are touching.
I read of a man who was
involved in a
tragic accident. He lost both legs and his
left arm
and only a finger and thumb remained
on the right hand.
But he
still possessed a brilliant mind,
enriched with a good education and
broadened
with world travel. At first he thought there
was nothing
he could do but remain
a helpless sufferer.
A thought came to
him. It was always
nice to receive letters, but why not write
them--he could still use his right hand with
some difficulty. But to
whom would he write?
Was there anyone shut-in and incapacitated
like he was who could be encouraged by
his letters? He thought of men in
prison--
they did have some hope of release, whereas
he had none--but it
was worth a try.
He wrote to a Christian organization concerned
with prison ministry. He was told that his letters
could not be answered
because it was against
prison rules, but he still decided to commence
this
one-sided correspondence.
He wrote twice a week, and it taxed his
strength to the limit. But into the letters he
put his whole soul, all his
experience, all his
faith, all his wit, and all his Christian
optimism.
Frequently he felt discouraged and was tempted
to give it
all up. But it was his one remaining
activity, and he resolved to
continue as
long as he could.
At last he got a letter. It
was very short,
written on prison stationery by the officer
whose duty it
was to censor the mail.
All it said was: "Please write on the best
paper you can afford. Your letters are passed
from cell to cell till
they literally fall to pieces."
No matter what your situation may
be like,
you still have the ability to encourage
someone who is
discouraged and lift up
someone who is feeling low.
Take this story
as an encouragement to give
your all for someone else and do not worry
about the results. No good work will go unseen
and only God knows of
the impact that your
life can have on someone else.
Let us not do
our good works so that we may
be praised, but let us do good works so that
others may be lifted up and God be praised
because of our
intervention.
The only thing that we can take with us
into eternity
is what we have done for the Lord.
There are no bank accounts in
heaven to
show how much your net worth was on the
earth, but there will be
accounts in heaven
of what you did to show your life as an
example in
leading others to Him.
~~~Author
Unknown~~~
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that
I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts
of peace and not of evil,
to give you
a future and a hope.
Galatians 6:9-10 And let us not
grow weary
while doing good, for in due season we shall
reap if we do not
lose heart. Therefore,
as we have opportunity, let us do good to all,
especially to those who are of the
household of faith.
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