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Get On the Bus!

I Corinthians 15:58

 

Patsy Clairmont writes, “Jason, our youngest, has two goals in life. One is to have fun; the other is to rest. And he does both quite well. So I shouldn’t be surprised about what happened when I sent him to school one fall day. As Jason headed off for the bus I busied myself, preparing for a full day. The knock on the door was a surprise, and disruptive to my morning rhythm, which is something I don’t have a lot of. I flew to the door and jerked it open, only to find myself looking at Jason. “What are you doing here?” I demanded. “I’ve quit school,” he announced. Quit school? I repeated in disbelief and at a decibel too high for human ears, swallowing once, trying to remember some Motherly psychology. But all that came to mind was, ‘a stitch in time saves nine’ and ‘starve a fever, feed a cold,’ or something like that. Somehow, they didn’t seem to apply to a six year old dropout dilemma. So I questioned, ‘Why have you quit school?’ Without hesitation he proclaimed, ‘It’s too long, it’s too hard, and it’s too boring!’ ‘Jason,  I instantly retorted,  you have just described life. Get On The Bus!’

 

When it comes to the Christian life, God promises no bed of roses on the battlefield and no carpet on the race track, just a checkerboard of adversity and advancement! His Word says, “Be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.

 

We must give ourselves fully to the work of the Lord!

So “GET ON THE BUS”