This
word is very much a theological team. I learned about it in Bible college while
studying the differences between Calvinism & Arminianism etc. But the idea
has a lot of relevance for us today as we see our culture degrading before our
eyes.
In
my devotions today, I read several passages about various Bible characters who
needed to persevere in following God’s plan in their lives.
Perseverance
is a pretty unpopular word & concept for many people. The quest for immediate
gratification mixes with it about as well as oil does with water.
It’s
ironic that individuals & groups with evil intentions seem to be better at
practicing perseverance than those with good, innocent, or even godly agendas
or desires.
We
live in a fallen, sinful world. The devil seems to infuse an insidious kind of perseverance
in those who serve his purposes.
Good,
godly intentions are worth persevering over. If we don’t know how to persevere,
we will by default be overcome in the marathon of life. Allow God to develop in
your life a quality that one of my old Junior High teachers used to call “sticktoitiveness.”
I love this old hymn:
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