Endurance
“And Jesus answered and said unto
them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name,
saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and
rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to
pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes,
in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they
deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of
all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall
betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall
rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of
many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be
saved.”
(Matthew 24:4-13)
(Matthew 24:4-13)
Today’s Morsel: One of
the most important traits of character that a Christian must possess is
endurance. None of us knows when Jesus will come again for us. I’ve seen many
quit serving God because they feel that all things are continuing as they have
always been; Evil men and women seem to be getting away with evil; Children
seem to have become more rebellious; and the church seems to have only a few
that are one-hundred percent committed to the things of God. Jesus said
that it takes endurance to make it to the end to be saved. You must not focus
on what you see and where you are now, but your focus must be on what Jesus has
promised and where you are going. As Paul said, “But we have this
treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God,
and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are
perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not
destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that
the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body… For our
light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more
exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which
are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen
are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”(2 Corinthians
4:7-10, 17-18) You can make it if you make up your mind.
Sing: I’m
going to a city, there’ll be no more night. I’m going to the city, where
Jesus is the light. The trumpet's gonna sound and I’ll be called away;
I’m going to a city someday.
Thought For Today: Endure
hardness as a good soldier for Christ.
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