Endurance | Labor | Perseverance

PERSISTENCE
Weary With Good Behavior? Pastor, do you ever get just bone weary with well doing? I like the story in Peanuts that illustrates the texts in Galatians and II Thess. on this topic. The cartoon shows Snoopy and Woodstock on the top of Snoopy’s doghouse and Snoopy is saying, “What are you doing here? You’re supposed to be out somewhere sitting on a branch chirping. That’s your job . . . People expect to hear birds chirping when they wake up in the morning.” So Woodstock goes off to the top of a shrub and belts out one lonely “Chirp!” and comes back. Snoopy responds: “You only chirped once. You can’t brighten someone’s day with one chirp!” So Woodstock heads back to the shrub and belts out about six more “Chirps!” When Woodstock returns, Snoopy smiles and says, “There, now! Didn’t that give you a feeling of real satisfaction? The bad news is you’re supposed to do that every morning for the rest…