Perseverance Leads To Victory
Ξ November 20th, 2007 | → Comments Off | ∇ Christian Living, Growing In The Lord, New Christians |
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When I was in high school, we had homerooms..meaning, we had a school room to go to every morning to start the day. We were there, generally, about 5 minutes getting the announcements for the day and any other business that had to be conducted. If we had an assembly that morning, we would travel to it from homeroom. It was our beginning.
Now on the top of the door, in our homeroom, there was a plaque that read P.A.L.S. At the beginning of each year (we kept the homeroom for the duration of our time at the high school), the particular teacher for that classroom would tell us what those letters meant. It was our homeroom motto. The one mystery in all these years is…why on earth it had to be a secret? I have no idea but there ya go.
The point here is that I remember the motto from all those years ago. We are talking over 40 years since I have been in that classroom and I still recall the motto. Why? Because it made an impact on me. The motto was “Perseverance Always Leads to Success”. Does it? I don’t really know for certain but I do believe that the reason I remember that when I have forgotten so many other things about high school is that God wanted me to keep that in mind when I want to start something.
Today, I am putting in this devotion because 1) I have not put one up in a long time and 2) because I believe that we need to remember my classroom motto. Paul did. Well, of course, he did not know my classroom motto but he lived his life with perseverance in mind. Here, let me show you:
(Phillipians 3:13-14) My brothers, I do not count myself to have taken possession, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind and reaching forward to the things before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Paul says that he forgets the things in the past and presses toward the mark of the prize. What prize is that? The high calling of God in Christ Jesus. When I began preaching, I knew that was what I was supposed to do because it was my calling. I want to be the best at what I do because I do not want to disappoint my Lord Jesus Who died for me on that cross. It was a knowing that God wanted me to do my job of preaching. I got ordained in a church by a pastor who took his calling very seriously so he would not have ordained me without God’s approval. He pressed toward the mark. I have pressed toward the mark..not as much as I should have..but I press toward the mark because I want to do the best job for Jesus that I can.
So today, we can all be like Paul. Perseverance always leads to success. If we will stick to our task, we can come out on top. Isn’t that what the scripture is saying too? Paul pressed toward the mark. What mark are you faced with today? Is it your job or school work? Your family? A sport you participate in? Do you feel that you cannot go on one more minute? Press toward the mark. Go that extra mile. Push one step farther than you ever have before. Be the winner that God has instilled in your heart. We can make a difference if we all press toward the mark, persevere and attain the goal. YEAH!!
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