BBD 08.28.14 Be Steadfast (Classic)
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The Burning
Bush Devotional
Classic
from 2002
08.28.14
Be
Steadfast
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding
in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 15:58.
God tells us through the apostle Paul in 1
Corinthians 15:58 to be "steadfast." Some other words related to steadfastness are
faithfulness, longsuffering, patience, determination, and endurance. The
dictionary defines steadfast as "firmly
fixed in place; not subject to change; firm in belief, determination, or
adherence; loyal." Louis
Skinner’s recent experience gives us a picture of this quality. Louis is
79-years-old and had climbed every mountain in Scotland except one. While
training for this attempt, he broke his leg. Louis says, "I’m normally very cautious coming down. I took a wee
risk that I shouldn’t have taken. I landed with a thump on my backside. My leg
hit a rock and I heard an ominous crack in my right leg. I could lie there and
rot or get on with it…."
Louis Skinner got on with it. He slid for three miles
down the hillside until he reached a walking path. Finding a stick, on which to
lean, he then walked three more miles to his car. But before getting to his
car, he had to climb a ten-foot deer fence, and then he drove himself back to
his hotel. The next morning, someone noticed him limping, and insisted that he
go to a doctor. Louis
says, "It won’t put me off climbing. I have
been doing it for 50 years and it is the worst accident I have had. I love it
and I am determined to climb my last Munro (a mountain)."
In life, there are constant challenges, big mountains and
little mountains to climb. The apostle Paul encourages us to continue on for
the Lord. Not only should we be steadfast, but also Paul says we should "abound." Why? Because our "labor is
not in vain in the Lord." The next
time life knocks you down, remember Louis
Skinner, who just continued on and said, "I could lie there and rot or get on with it…." We too can just lie there and rot after we are
discouraged, but God would have us to get up, and move on with Him. In the
midst of discouragement and pain, be steadfast, and continue on in the Name of
the Lord; because the alternative is to lie
there and rot!
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