Who Else Works Overtime?
Who Else Works Overtime Besides You?
Here’s to all of you who have to work overtime – my hat’s off to you. 🙂
Give yourself a pat on the back for taking on those extra hours when duty calls.
I’m not just talking about hospital workers.
You know who else works long hours to help to make this country great?
Men and women serving in the military
Police officers
Secretaries
Biblical pastors writing their sermons
Delivery drivers
And many other occupations that don’t get the media accolades.
We’ve probably all worked overtime at some point in our lives.
I remember working overtime often over the years, even overnight as a reporter camped outside a breaking crime scene.
It’s just what you do to get the job done, and to do it well.
While we’re on the subject, guess who else works overtime, but not for the good like all of those dedicated workers mentioned above?
Evil Doesn’t Sleep
Spiritual Enemy No. 1, Satan, also works overtime.
The Enemy of our souls spends hour after hour, every single day, looking for ways to trip you up, make you doubt your faith, and throw every conceivable distraction at you so you don’t have time for God.
Fact: The Enemy hates every single one of us.
Satan is geared to the destruction of God’s people, primarily. Obviously he wants to damn the whole human race, but his particular preoccupation is with those who belong to God, i.e., Adam and Eve and Job and Peter and Paul and others. His hope is that if he can’t destroy their faith, he can destroy their integrity before God by a long list of indictments. – John MacArthur, pastor and bible teacher from Grace To You.1
And so he acts the same with us.
Satan’s time is short.
Is he invincible?
No!
Jesus Will One Day Take All Of This Evil Away
Fortunately for us, there’s someone greater, omnipotent, and sovereign who works overtime.
That someone is Jesus – our Sovereign God who has already won the battle against evil.
Christians know that troubling times continue up ahead.
It’s easy to get discouraged during all of this craziness – but don’t stay in that place for long. Keep your eyes on Jesus.
We have blessed assurance that every last repentant sinner who recognizes Jesus as Savior will be saved.
Jesus Christ, our Deliverer, works overtime praying for you and for me, and at the appointed time, He will come back for us.
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1 John MacArthur quotation, courtesy of GTY.org/library/sermons-library. 20 February, 2000. para. 17. Web. Accessed 19, April, 2021. Retrieved from https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/90-236/the-character-of-satan
* Charles Spurgeon, influential pastor, quotation was accessed April 14, 2021 and retrieved from https://www.thekingdomcollective.com/spurgeon/sermon/92/. n.d., Para 39. Web. Photo used under the Pixabay License – free for commercial or private use – an artistic derivative created by me of the background photo original.
