Keep on Keeping On

DEVOTION
2 THESSALONIANS
KEEP ON KEEPING ON
2 Thess 1:11
11 With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith.
NIV
It is one thing to have the ability to achieve what I set my mind on doing, but it is completely a different thing to have God cramming full to completion all the things I do for the good of his kingdom. But I have to admit I that I cannot achieve all that I set my mind to as I am weak, but I relish in the fact he is strong. As to whether I am worthy of his calling on my life, I cannot speak to that issue for I cannot judge my worthiness, only he can. Sometimes I think I am, and than other times I know I am not. I suppose the one and only one who makes me worthy is Christ. Yet I am to be about my father’s business. I am to get on with having a purpose which is good and will benefit the Kingdom of God. I am to be doing things, actions, every act of my must be prompted by my faith in him. Because I believe I should be having good purposes and actions. These are not purposes for my own advancement in life. My actions are not supposed to be for my benefit, for things I want to get done, but rather for the kingdom. Yet am I not allowed to have some agenda of my own? Am I not allowed to have some plan for my life? Am I not allowed to have my own pleasures and comforts? Do I have to be continually having a good purpose and actions that will advance the kingdom? Maybe I need to reconfirm exactly what is my calling which I may be counted worthy of by God. I know that without him in the mix I surely cannot accomplish this calling. I know there are other people with an incredible charismatic personality able to attract and influence many others with their fine talk. I am not one of those. I have neither a charismatic personality nor fine talk and I do not attract or influence many. So why has God called me to do what I do? I can only think because he desires me to do what he desires me to do. The reason is his and I am but his servant to do whatever he calls me to do. He will fulfill that purpose. He will see to it that whatever he is having me to do will get done as he has planned it. I may never see the completion of any of the actions I do prompted by my faith. I think all I need to be concerned about is keeping on doing until he decides I should do something else. So I keep in keeping on.