Worried that you are not doing enough? Understand that "God did not send His Son to the world to point accusing fingers or tell the world what is wrong with it, but that the world through Him might be saved.
Believers, are you worried that you are not giving enough or doing enough in your work, home, church or community? Do you worry that you are doing and giving so much yet your prayers don't seem to make it anywhere? Let not your heart be troubled! The Good Shepherd (our Lord Jesus) knows the best method and best time for sheep shearing, not the sheep. Sheep are helpless without their shepherd. Remember John 15:5 where our Saviour is saying to us- “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing." We are the sheep. He is our Shepherd. We don't know our left from our right; He does. We don't even know what we ought to pray for (Romans 8:26). Christ leads us on the path of righteousness because we don't know this path. This is why Isaiah describes the good things we do to get right with God (our righteousnesses) as filthy rags-- " We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called rig...