"Use every chance you have for doing good, because these are evil times." -- Ephesians 5:16
"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people..." -- Galatians 6:9
I stumbled upon these two verses in the same day and it struck me again that we are called by God to focus on the positive in this life, fully aware that it is difficult to do so because the times are evil and we do not see the harvest immediately.
We are instructed to look past circumstances and find a chance, an opportunity to do good and then to do it. I think we too often look past the opportunities to do good that we find because we don't see how they are going to "pan out" for good. We don't see how what we plant in that opportunity could ever be harvested into anything that amounts to much.
But as a speaker at my church recently said "We do the planting and the watering and God does the growing." In a way that's much easier. I'm off the hook for producing the fruit. I just have to look for places that seem to need some water or a seed or a little weeding and then do that, trusting God to produce the harvest at the right time.
