We need to be up and doing: girding up the loins of our minds (1 Pet 1:13), stirring up our gifts (2 Tim 1:6), and offering up prayers and sacrifices (1 Pet 2:5). We should be stirring up one another (2 Pet 1:13), and building up one another (Jude 20), until we’re caught up to be with one another and with our beloved Lord forever (1 Thes 4:17). We need to be storing up for ourselves a good foundation (1 Tim 6:19), not laying up for ourselves treasures on earth (Mt 6:19) because we know that otherwise it will all be burned up (2 Pet 3:10). So if we lift up our eyes to see the whitened fields for harvest (Jn 4:35), if we lift up the hands of weary saints which hang down (Heb 12:12), and if we lift up our heads because our redemption is drawing near (Lk 21:28), we will be able to say with Paul, “There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing” (2 Tim 4:8).
Today’s Reading: 2 Samuel 6-8 Memorize: Isaiah 46:9-10