Diligence is “willingly completing the tasks I have accepted.”
So what does Diligence look like to me? Here are a few of the people whose lives touched my heart last year:
- A young orphan thanking God for bringing her to a place of safety and diligently memorizing Scripture to share with those around her.
- An autistic young man holding a job—beginning with the ability to sew 50 items a day and diligently practicing until he now sews 300 a day.
- A missionary couple giving 40 years of their lives to a tribe in Papua New Guinea to diligently finish translating the Bible into that tribal language.
- A single mom, willingly accepting the task of eking out a living for herself and her child.
- A man diligently witnessing through his life and his words to a good friend, who doesn’t see the answer while the man is still alive, but his friend comes to Christ at his funeral.
- A praying widow who prays persistently day in and day out for the salvation and spiritual growth of an orphan she never meets (this side of heaven).
- A prayer team in Indonesia persevering in prayer that their country will become a lighthouse to the nations (Matthew 5:16), but also send “workers” around the world.
Who modelled diligence for you in a way that encouraged you?
