Let us run with patience (Hebrews 12:1)
To run with patience is a very difficult thing. Running is apt to suggest the absence of patience, the eagerness to reach the goal. We commonly associate patience with lying down. We think of it as the angel that guards the couch of the invalid. Yet, I do not think the invalid's patience the hardest to achieve.
There is a patience which I believe to be harder--the patience that can run. To lie down in the time of grief, to be quiet under the stroke of adverse fortune, implies a great strength; but I know of something that implies a strength greater still: It is the power to work under a stroke; to have a great weight at your heart and still to run; to have a deep anguish in your spirit and still perform the daily task.
It is a Christlike thing!
The Urgency of Your Prayer Now
God’s timetable of the ages may be rapidly nearing the countdown toward Christ’s return. God’s great plan, for which he created the world and man, has been delayed and frustrated by the long reign of sin and Satan since Adam’s fall.
But according to the Bible, the delay of Christ’s return is not so much because God is patiently waiting for the world to repent as because He is patiently waiting for us to lead them to repentance (2 Peter 3:9).
This is further emphasized by the fact that, of all the conditions and signs that must precede Christ’s coming, perhaps only one remains to be fulfilled: “This gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come” (Matt. 24:14).
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Trust. It can't be half-hearted. Either it is full trust or it is clouded with suspicion. So as we face the everyday challenges of life, or as we look for answers in deep and difficult problems, let's put our full trust in the LORD. Let's ask for his wisdom and guidance as we make our choices. Let's give him praise for the good in our life and seek his blessing for the days ahead. Why? Because he longs to bless us with life, both now, and forevermore.
To run with patience is a very difficult thing. Running is apt to suggest the absence of patience, the eagerness to reach the goal. We commonly associate patience with lying down. We think of it as the angel that guards the couch of the invalid. Yet, I do not think the invalid's patience the hardest to achieve.
There is a patience which I believe to be harder--the patience that can run. To lie down in the time of grief, to be quiet under the stroke of adverse fortune, implies a great strength; but I know of something that implies a strength greater still: It is the power to work under a stroke; to have a great weight at your heart and still to run; to have a deep anguish in your spirit and still perform the daily task.
It is a Christlike thing!
The Urgency of Your Prayer Now
God’s timetable of the ages may be rapidly nearing the countdown toward Christ’s return. God’s great plan, for which he created the world and man, has been delayed and frustrated by the long reign of sin and Satan since Adam’s fall.
But according to the Bible, the delay of Christ’s return is not so much because God is patiently waiting for the world to repent as because He is patiently waiting for us to lead them to repentance (2 Peter 3:9).
This is further emphasized by the fact that, of all the conditions and signs that must precede Christ’s coming, perhaps only one remains to be fulfilled: “This gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come” (Matt. 24:14).
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Trust. It can't be half-hearted. Either it is full trust or it is clouded with suspicion. So as we face the everyday challenges of life, or as we look for answers in deep and difficult problems, let's put our full trust in the LORD. Let's ask for his wisdom and guidance as we make our choices. Let's give him praise for the good in our life and seek his blessing for the days ahead. Why? Because he longs to bless us with life, both now, and forevermore.
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