To wait, to endure, to be obedient - even in the drudgery of
everyday life - these seem to make up the interconnected theme of today’s
devotionals.
The Our Daily Bread
devotional speaks of King Saul’s refusal to wait upon Samuel in 1 Samuel
13:8-14. The devotional writer, Marvin
Williams, says that Saul’s “impatience was the ultimate display of a lack of
faith.” Mr. Williams encourages us to remember
that “The Lord will
provide His guiding presence as we wait patiently for Him to bring about His
will.”
Similarly the God
Calling devotional says, in part:
How many
of the world's prayers have gone unanswered because My children who prayed did
not endure to the end. They thought it was too late, and that they must act for
themselves, that I was not going to act for them. Remember My words: "He
that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved."
Can you
endure to the end? If so, you shall be saved. But endure with courage, with
Love and laughter. Oh! My children, is My training too hard?
For you,
My children, I will unlock the secret treasures hidden from so many. Not one of
your cries is unheard. I am with you indeed to aid you. Go through all I have
said to you, and live in every detail as I have enjoined you. As you follow
implicitly all I say, success -- spiritual, mental, and physical -- shall be
yours. Wait in silence awhile, conscious of My presence, in which you must live
to have rest unto your souls, and Power and Joy and Peace.
And the My Utmost for
His Highest devotional states:
Whenever God gives us His
inspiration, suddenly taking the initiative becomes a moral issue— a matter of
obedience. Then we must act to be obedient and not continue to lie down doing
nothing. If we will arise and shine, drudgery will be divinely transformed.
Drudgery is one of the
finest tests to determine the genuineness of our character. Drudgery is work
that is far removed from anything we think of as ideal work. It is the utterly
hard, menial, tiresome, and dirty work. And when we experience it, our
spirituality is instantly tested and we will know whether or not we are
spiritually genuine… The inspiration of God is required if drudgery is to shine
with the light of God upon it. In some cases the way a person does a task makes
that work sanctified and holy forever. It may be a very common everyday task,
but after we have seen it done, it becomes different. When the Lord does
something through us, He always transforms it.
Thought about and looked up some Scriptures (KJV) on
patience …
James 1:2-4
2 My brethren, count it all
joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 Knowing this, that the
trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her
perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Romans 5:1-5
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom
also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in
hope of the glory of God.
3 And not
only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh
patience;
4 And
patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5 And hope
maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the
Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Romans 8:24-25
24 For we are saved by hope:
but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope
for?
25 But if we hope for that
we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Romans 15:4-6
4 For whatsoever things were
written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and
comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
5 Now the God of patience
and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to
Christ Jesus:
6 That ye may with one mind
and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Colossians 1:11
11 Strengthened with all
might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering
with joyfulness;
1 Timothy 6:11
11 But thou, O man of God,
flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love,
patience, meekness.
Hebrews 6:11-12
11 And we desire that every
one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the
end:
12 That ye be not slothful,
but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
James 1:2-4
2 My brethren, count it all
joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 Knowing this, that the
trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her
perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
James 5:7-11
7 Be patient therefore,
brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the
precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive
the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient;
stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9 Grudge not one against
another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the
door.
10 Take, my brethren, the
prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering
affliction, and of patience.
11 Behold, we count them
happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end
of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
2 Peter 1:1-12
1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that
have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and
our Saviour Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace be
multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3 According as his divine
power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us
exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of
the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through
lust.
5 And beside this, giving
all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge
temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly
kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in
you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful
in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacketh these
things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged
from his old sins.
10 Wherefore the rather,
brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do
these things, ye shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall
be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ.
12 Wherefore I will not be
negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know
them, and be established in the present truth.
… and my journey with
Him continues …
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