Monday, September 10 [God’s] undeserved kindness to me was not in vain.​—1 Cor. 15:10.

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Monday, September 10

[God’s] undeserved kindness to me was not in vain.—1 Cor. 15:10.

 

Paul was very much aware that he had neither earned nor deserved God’s great mercy, having been a former persecutor of Christians. Toward the end of his life, Paul wrote to his fellow worker Timothy: “I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who imparted power to me, because he considered me faithful by assigning me to a ministry.” (1 Tim. 1:12-14) What was that ministry? Paul told the elders of the congregation in Ephesus what it included, stating: “I do not consider my own life of any importance to me, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear thorough witness to the good news of the undeserved kindness of God.” (Acts 20:24) In his zeal to perform his ministry, Paul set an excellent example for modern-day Christians and demonstrated that God’s undeserved kindness had not been shown to him “in vain.” w16.07 4:1-3

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Todays text really resonates with me especially after yesterday WT study. My Father notices all the effort I put into my ministry. The world may not consider our ministry to be of much value but Jehovah sees what do on his behalf an its not in vain.