Perseverance
“A rule I have had for years
is to treat the Lord Christ as a personal friend.
When I go away from home
I bid my wife and children goodbye;
I bid my friends and acquaintances goodbye,
but I never heard of a poor backslider
going down on his knees and saying,
'I have been near you for ten years;
your service has become tedious and monotonous;
I have come to bid you farewell. Goodbye, Lord Christ.’
I never heard of one doing this.
I will tell you how they go:
they just run away!”
Dwight L Moody
Perseverance:
“Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider her ways and be wise!”
Proverbs 6:6
We often take stock in our situation
and feel as though we have had it tough.
In reality, we live in luxury in comparison to most of the world.
A man named Ri, was born in Vietnam. As a youth he witnessed both his parents murdered by the North Vietnamese army. So he fled to South Vietnam in the 1960’s . While there he was able to go to school and learned basic skills that allowed him to eventually become a building contractor. His business prospered, and he decided to return to the north to bring money and goods to his relatives there. While there he was arrested and thrown into prison for three years. He finally escaped from the prison in the North and fled back to South Vietnam. There he was again arrested and charged with being a spy for the north! Finally he was released, just about the time that the U.S. decided to pull out of Vietnam.
Ri sold everything he had and secured passage on a small overcrowded fishing boat. He was later picked up by an American warship and taken to the Philippines. There he lived for two years in a refugee camp in squalid and overcrowded conditions. Finally he was allowed to come to the United States.
Ri was allowed to come here, because he had a cousin living here, who offered him a job in his tailor shop. Both Ri and his wife worked long hours seven days a week for meager pay. They lived in a small room in the back of the tailor shop, taking baths in a basin of water so that they could save every penny possible that they made.
In two years time Ri and his wife were able to save $30,000, and used it to buy his cousin’s tailor shop. It was only then that they allowed themselves the luxury of renting a small apartment.
Today they are millionaires! Hard work and frugal living brought their dream into reality.
How often do we settle for less that what the Lord desires to give us, because we do not hold on to the dream He has birthed in our hearts?
A man named Ri, was born in Vietnam. As a youth he witnessed both his parents murdered by the North Vietnamese army. So he fled to South Vietnam in the 1960’s . While there he was able to go to school and learned basic skills that allowed him to eventually become a building contractor. His business prospered, and he decided to return to the north to bring money and goods to his relatives there. While there he was arrested and thrown into prison for three years. He finally escaped from the prison in the North and fled back to South Vietnam. There he was again arrested and charged with being a spy for the north! Finally he was released, just about the time that the U.S. decided to pull out of Vietnam.
Ri sold everything he had and secured passage on a small overcrowded fishing boat. He was later picked up by an American warship and taken to the Philippines. There he lived for two years in a refugee camp in squalid and overcrowded conditions. Finally he was allowed to come to the United States.
Ri was allowed to come here, because he had a cousin living here, who offered him a job in his tailor shop. Both Ri and his wife worked long hours seven days a week for meager pay. They lived in a small room in the back of the tailor shop, taking baths in a basin of water so that they could save every penny possible that they made.
In two years time Ri and his wife were able to save $30,000, and used it to buy his cousin’s tailor shop. It was only then that they allowed themselves the luxury of renting a small apartment.
Today they are millionaires! Hard work and frugal living brought their dream into reality.
How often do we settle for less that what the Lord desires to give us, because we do not hold on to the dream He has birthed in our hearts?
“Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!]
let us exult and triumph in our troubles
and rejoice in our sufferings,
knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship
produce patient and unswerving endurance.
And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character
(approved faith and tried integrity).
And character [of this sort] produces
[the habit of] joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation.
Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us,
for God's love has been poured out in our hearts
through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us.”
Romans 5:3-5 Amplified Bible
Let’s have the right attitude and continue steadfastly for Him!
“The appetite of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
but the appetite of the diligent is abundantly supplied”
Proverbs 13:4 Amplified Bible
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let us exult and triumph in our troubles
and rejoice in our sufferings,
knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship
produce patient and unswerving endurance.
And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character
(approved faith and tried integrity).
And character [of this sort] produces
[the habit of] joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation.
Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us,
for God's love has been poured out in our hearts
through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us.”
Romans 5:3-5 Amplified Bible
Let’s have the right attitude and continue steadfastly for Him!
“The appetite of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
but the appetite of the diligent is abundantly supplied”
Proverbs 13:4 Amplified Bible
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