The Good Will

2 Cor 8:10-12 (NIV)

“And here is my advice about what is best for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so. Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.”   

In what way can this fit in today? I think of three things:

Do not stop the good work you have begun.

When you started your school group, you took the initiative to allow Jesus to take more space in your life and in your school. And God want to bless that initiative. But God says He saw your good will when you started the work last year and He says you should complete the work. How?

Depending on your ability.

God does not say we should do something that we cannot, God says we should do as best we can! We may work for God in our various ways, depending on our ability. If you do not have the ability to play a drum solo and do not want to do it in the cafeteria tomorrow, then this is not what God says you should do. He says instead:

If someone has only the good will, he is welcome with what he has and is not judged by what he does not have.

Give to God what you have and He will bless it. Don't look at yourself and just look at everything you don't have. What do you have that you can give to God? Maybe you can give Him some time in the morning while sitting on the bus or going to school by praying for five minutes? If you only have the good will, give it what you have. If you want to put up a poster on the school pin board you can do it, because you have the will!