Impossible, Difficult, Done!

While the yoke of the Lord Jesus is easy and His burden light, nevertheless the furrow that He calls us to undertake is not always by any means easy plowing. 

There is no yoke that fits so smoothly and handily as His, but there is no work that requires more steady trudging and persistent faithfulness than His. Three stages of that work are strikingly set forth by Hudson Taylor when he says: “Commonly there are three stages in work for God:

Impossible, Difficult, Done!”

Said General William Booth, “God loves with a special love the man who has a passion for the impossible.” Are you confronting today the impossible in work for God? Praise Him for that, because you are in a way to discover the blessing of finding that work difficult, and then to experience the deep joy of finding it done, by the same Lord who started you on the furrow.

Am I Thy friend?

And canst Thou count on me,

Lord, to be true to Thee?

Canst Thou depend

On sympathy and help of mine,

In purpose, aim,

Or work of Thine,

And trust me with the honor of Thy name?

 

 

The above were some thoughts from Streams in the Desert.

 There is something Deeply encouraging, when we endure in the midst of difficulty.  We understand the value and price of the work of a project, or any endeavor we might face...and endurance does more than accomplish the task, but changes us in the process. 

"It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent."

~Jeremy Taylor