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Posted by knowHim (Member # 8) on :

A Loyal Soldier
"Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ"
2 Timothy 2:3

The first requirement of the worker is discipline voluntarily entered into. It is easy to be passionate, easy to be thrilled by spiritual influences, but it takes a heart in love with Jesus Christ to put the feet in His footprints, and to square the life to a steady going “up to Jerusalem” with Him. Discipline is the one thing the modern Christian knows nothing of, we won’t stand discipline nowadays. God has given me an experience of His life and grace, therefore I am a law unto myself.

The discipline of a worker is not in order to develop his own life, but for the purposes of his Commander. The reason there is so much failure is because we forget that we are here for that one thing, loyalty to Jesus Christ; otherwise we have no business to have taken the vows of God upon us. If a soldier is not prepared to be killed, he has no business to have enlisted as a soldier. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.

Our Lord Himself is the example of a disciplined life. He lived a holy life by sacrificing Himself to His Father; His words and His thinking were holy because He submitted His intelligence to His Father’s word, and He worked the works of God because He steadily submitted His will to His Father’s will; and as is the Master, so is the disciple.

Chambers, Oswald,
Approved unto God, (United Kingdom: Marshall Morgan & Scott) c1936.

Posted by barrykind (Member # 35) on :

quote:
A Loyal Soldier
"Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ"
2 Timothy 2:3

A soldier does not let himself be bothered about the things of this world, so he may please his captain.

amen KnowHim

Posted by SHADOW OF HIM (Member # 148) on :

TO ENDURE HARDNESS AS A GOOD SOLDIER IF WE ARE STILL TRYING TO HANDLE THINGS BY WALKING IN THE FLESH IS IMPOSSIBLE. ENDURING HARDNESS MEANS WHEN YOU ARE TALKED TO ROUGHLY BY A FELLOW CHURCH MEMBER, PASSED OVER ON YOUR JOB FOR A PROMOTION BECAUSE YOU ARE SAVED, EXCLUDED FROM SOCIAL AND FAMILY EVENTS BECAUSE YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN. MY HUSBAND ONCE TOLD ME WHEN I WAS GOING THROUGH A HARD TIME AND I WAS ASKING "WHY ME?"-HE TOLD ME "WHY NOT YOU?" IF WE SUFFER WITH HIM, WE WILL ALSO REIGN WITH HIM. JESUS OVERCAME THE WORLD-HE KNOWS WHAT WE ARE GOING THROUGH. THE SUFFERING IN THE PRESENT WORLD IS REALLY NOTHING TO BE COMPARED TO THE REWARD WE SHALL RECIEVE WHEN WE HEAR "WELL DONE THY GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT."

WE, AS AMERICANS, REALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE PERSECUTED FOR OUR BELIEFS. WE HAVE BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD WHO GET THEIR HANDS AMPUTATED FOR BEING CAUGHT WITH GOD'S HOLY WORD. GOD BLESS THEM!!!

MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

ALWAYS,

IN THE SHADOW OF HIM