Continue In Well Doing- Patiently.

 Rom 2:7  To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life

Well doing- doing right-choosing God first, choosing others next, choosing self last. We must patiently continue in this because to do otherwise is to give up on right over wrong. We must patiently continue following God and His way over our own.  Any glory and honor we will find in our ultimate immortality, eternal life. We choose no glory or honor now, just as our Savior chose no glory or honor when He ministered upon earth in the flesh of humanity. No glory and honor now… in the smallest matters to the largest… no glory and honor now. Yet how often we do seek to have glory and honor come our way with the constant praising of our good deeds tiny as they may be. We seek this, we want this, we crave gratitude as our right for doing what we should be doing without any praise at all, and surely without any honor. We crave desperately to be praised, and feel affronted when we go without praise for even the smallest action we may do for another. Our need for constant affirmation of being and doing good things has been perverted, right along with our arrogance. Some need praise, some need no praise because they have the false belief that they are infallibly wonderful all on their own. They shrug off compliments as being beneath them, they give honor and glory to themselves in great quantities. Two extremes, and so many of us seem to live between the two to some degree. Where we are supposed to live is surrendered. We are supposed to live desiring only honor and glory for God! No honor or glory for ourselves- not in any manner, whether in longing for or believing we have all the glory and honor already. God HELP us to live in continuing patience in well doing- that well doing being God's will. Let all glory and honor be given to eternity with the One deserving of all glory and honor, our LORD Jesus Christ!  Please, all through the love of our LORD now and forever, through His mercy and grace, His forgiveness! Amen!