2 Corinthians 4:17 ‘For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.’

DAILY READING –• Acts 10:1-33; Joshua 7-8; Job 24

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, and the third largest desert behind the Antarctic and the Arctic, which are both cold deserts. The Sahara is one of the harshest environments on Earth. This enormous desert spans 11 countries and covers 3.6 million square miles, which is nearly a third of the African continent.

It has one of the world’s most severe climates. Typically, the Sahara landscape experiences extremely limited to virtually no rainfall, Across the desert, the annual average rainfall equals no more than a few inches or less. In some areas, no rain at all may fall in the desert for several years. The prevailing wind, which blows from the northeast toward the equator throughout the year, accounts for the desert’s aridity.

It is however interesting that as dry as the Sahara is, it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, the Red Sea on the east, the Mediterranean Sea on the north and the Sahel Savannah on the south.

It is indeed remarkable that though surrounded by these great bodies of water, the Sahara still remains a very dry land. Spiritually, this can also be the case sometimes with some of us.
A person can be in the middle of a revival and yet not be revived.. It is not enough to be in an environment of revival, we must strive to be partakers and not mere spectators.
In many sports, though the spectators are always more than the players, it is only the players that get rewarded in the end.. Therefore make up your mind this year not to watch things pass you by.
There is a participation required for you to get rewarded.
To see God’s glory revealed in our lives, we must be individually willing to press into it. Everything of value has a cost. For every new height, there is a new price to pay. For every desire there are corresponding demands.

2 Corinthians 4:17 says, ‘For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.’

Glory is not accidental. If you do nothing, you will see nothing.
May we therefore receive the grace to do our best now so as to position ourselves to be partakers of the coming glory..
Already the race for this year has begun. The whistle has been blown. But what you do now is what will determine how you will end the year. Do you see yourself at the end of this year in a multiplied form? Then now is the time to pay the price. Be prepared to seek God in a new and greater dimension. Decide to increase your time spent in God’s Word, in prayers, and in service to God’s kingdom. Make a greater commitment to live holy, to walk in purity and in power. But most importantly, remain thankful.
We are where we are today only because of the grace of God. And we can only get to where we are going by His grace.
So as we take spiritual responsibility to pay the price for glory, let us also remain thankful to God for His divine Help and grace to adequately run the race before us.
PRAYER
Lord, please grant me the grace to run the race set before me. Please enable me to become more spiritually fervent and to be fully revived in order to see Your glory manifested in every area of my life in Jesus’ name.

QUOTE
Faith is more than just believing. It is acting upon the Word that you believe. WORDBITE 222