"...working for the Lord..."

You do not just wake up in a day and bam everything in your life is fixed.  You cannot want a good relationship with God, a friend or anyone in that matter if you do not put forth the effort.  If you realize that you are not getting anywhere still after putting forth effort then it is time to evaluate.  How are you trying to reach that person?  Is it a way that they are able to respond?  But when does it get to the point where you give up or you stop trying so hard because they are not putting forth the effort either?  When can you decide that it is not worth it?  When is the right time for you to justify why you do not call that person anymore?  Never. Wanna know why?
We are to be imitators of Jesus.  He laid the foundation for us to follow.  Has Jesus ever decide in all His years that He was not going to talk to that person because they were not putting forth the effort?  Did He ever stop "calling" someone because He felt like it was not worth it anymore? Did He ever stop loving them?
Nope.
He went against the grain, He loved when others would never think about loving.  He ate with tax collectors and prostitutes.  Yup, that is my Amazing Father that I look up to and that I strive to be like more and more everyday.  You know what? If the Lord wants me to call someone every stinkin' day, I will.  If the Lord wants me to travel a thousand miles I will.  Because that is what you do for someone you love.  When you truly know how to love and when you know how to just look past all that "stuff" that gets in the way of someones personality, then that is when you can begin to see that you are not wasting your time.  What if that call happened at just the right moment, just the moment when they needed to hear someones voice?  What if that visit changed the way they see the world, people, or even God.  This verse in Colossians 3:24 helps me a lot especially when I do not feel like calling, visiting, writing a letter or even typing on this blog. "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving." 
Would you like it if God just gave up on you?  If He just stopped calling, if He just decided you were a lost cause.  And yet we do this to our Lord constantly.  We repeatably ignore His calls, we do not listen for His cue for us, we give up hope, we give up, we stop loving.  But does He ever stop calling?  Does He ever stop sending us mail, or stop loving us? 
Nope. 
It is time to evaluate the way you treat people.  It is time to realize that everyone is worth your time.  It is time you realize that Jesus Christ our Savior is sending us mail, and calling us and we are not getting it.  We are doing the same thing to Him that we do to other people. 

Start fresh with God, with your family and friends and give diligently to all of them just as Jesus gave to everyone. 

Do not be a slave to your old ways,
Kelsey