I love the old song “He’ll Understand and Say Well Done”. It speaks of coming to “the end of my journey. Weary of life, and the battle is won:“. It reminds us that we can leave this old world knowing that, if we’ve given the best of our service, the Lord will “understand and say well done”. That being the case, let us not spend our days depressed and complaining that it’s too difficult or too short. Let us be thankful for the life we’ve had and what time we might have left, and thrilled that the best is yet to come. May God help us to have the attitude of Paul when he wrote 2 Tim. 4:6-7 “For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:”
Some of you are tired, weary, and ready to go home, but God isn’t through with you–press on! Some of you are hurting and fearful of what might lie ahead, but you don’t know the future, so –press on! Some of you feel discouraged because you can no longer do what you used to do, but you can do something, so –press on, even if it is at a snail’s pace. Some of you feel your efforts are in vain and a waste of time, but it is God who gives the increase–press on! Keep sowing and watering, and leave the results with God. Some of you feel defeated, as though you have failed, because there is yet so much to do, but –press on! You never know what yet might happen– press on! It’s always too soon to quit. The fact that you are still here is evidence that you are needed. Press on! If you can’t do anything else, be a cheer leader urging others to press on! He is no failure who can say he has faithfully finished his course. God demands no more from us. —HDS
