DAILY DEVOTIONAL

Persistence -

The Chinese bamboo tree is an unusual plant.  The Chinese plant the seed; they water and fertilize it, but the first year nothing happens.  The second year they water and fertilize it, and still nothing happens.  The third and fourth year they water and fertilize it and nothing happens.  The fifth year they water and fertilize it, and sometime during the course of the fifth year, in a period of approximately six weeks, the Chinese bamboo tree grows roughly ninety feet. The question is, "Did it grow ninety feet in just six weeks or did it grow ninety feet in five years?"  The obvious answer is that it grew ninety feet in five years.  Had the water and fertilizer not been applied each year, there would have been no Chinese bamboo tree.

What does all this have to do with us?  It perfectly illustrates a Biblical principle. "And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not" (Galatians 6:9)... It's not so much what you do today that makes a difference.  It's what you do consistently every day that will bear fruit in its own time.  "So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good..."  

Keep it up!  The principle is persistence. ~Bill Watkins

THOUGHT  OF THE DAY 🤔 Forgiving, like weight lifting, grows easier the more reps you do.