Acquiring Perseverance

[Christ4Ever]

The Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little. (Deuteronomy 7:22)​

We are not to expect to win victories for the Lord Jesus by a single blow. Evil principles and practices die hard. In some places it takes years of labor to drive out even one of the many vices which defile the inhabitants. We must carry on the war with all our might, even when favored with little manifest success.

Our business in this world is to conquer it for Jesus. We are not to make compromises but to exterminate evils. We are not to seek popularity but to wage unceasing war with iniquity. Infidelity, popery, drink, impurity, oppression, worldliness, error; these are all to be "put out."

The Lord our God can alone accomplish this. He works by His faithful servants, and blessed be His name. He promises that He will so work. "Jehovah thy God will put out those nations before thee." This He will do by degrees that we may learn perseverance, may increase in faith, may earnestly watch, and may avoid carnal security. Let us thank God for a little success and pray for more. Let us never sheathe the sword till the whole land is won for Jesus.

Courage, my heart! Go on little by little, for many littles will make a great whole.

Charles Spurgeon

 

[B-A-C]

2 Pet 1:5; Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,
2 Pet 1:6; and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness,
2 Pet 1:7; and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
2 Pet 1:8; For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

[robaston]

The Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little.

nic, i am trying not to get influenced by charles. i know he is outstanding but my decision in these devotionals is my words will be just what God tells me.

1. I recall let God arise, let His enemies be scattered, WHICH is a proclamation/responsibility
2. little by little reminds me of endurance/perserverance

 

[Christ4Ever]

nic, i am trying not to get influenced by charles. i know he is outstanding but my decision in these devotionals is my words will be just what God tells me.

1. I recall let God arise, let His enemies be scattered, WHICH is a proclamation/responsibility
2. little by little reminds me of endurance/perserverance

It's the small battles that we face daily.
As you rightly have said in "Endurance/Perseverance", though we know the victory is won we still run the race.

I pray it is not Charles that I am influenced by, but God's word. A perspective that I might not always agree with, but one which will open up the day that there is much that looms before me that is only known by God. Sometimes with joy and other times with trepidation, but always in the knowledge that He is always with me. That is what I seek in these devotionals. Remainders of His Great Love and Faithfulness to all who love Him.

I love Him brother as I know you do too.
Hold on to that. Be reminded of that.
Makes for a great start to the day!
So don't hold on to Charles for he'll get you nothing, but hold on to the God and His Word.
For in Him there is all fullness.
YBIC
C4E
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[amadeus2]

It's the small battles that we face daily.
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"Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." Song of Solomon 2:15