Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done

To rejoice for evermore, you must have cause to rejoice; and for every child of God, your principal accountability after being saved to live for Christ is in the number of souls you won for Him.

When a man like Paul commands ‘rejoice evermore’, questions necessarily arise! What could be driving Paul or what would you say was his motivation for such an utterance?

Knowing the love of God transforms your view of things, but as Paul wrote again to Titus in Titus 3:4-8 (NLT), it also places a demand on every beneficiary of this great love to do good all the time.

To stand and be an overcomer now, you need the Holy Spirit daily to express Himself in you and control you

I can confidently rejoice in the face of all these discordant tones because they are intended to teach me patience, develop in me the strength of character needed to trust God the more

Now between hearing and doing, there are significant hurdles that are thrown your way as the Lord made clear in the parable of the sower (Matthew 13:18-23).

This is your wisdom that you hear and do what He says. Hearing and doing is not a one-time action but done on continuing basis just as David presented in Psalm 27:4,

The thesaurus defines “wisdom” as the quality of having experience, knowledge, good judgment… and one is prompted to ask, what if there is no experience?

Be quiet and easy, resigned to the will of God, and dwell in an assured expectation of the appearance of the eternal God to our rescue.