Stand Firm

This is Angus Buchan with a thought for the day.

2 Timothy Chapter 4 verse 7 says:

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”

Some people are quick to say that fiery trials or tribulation are the result of sin in your life.

If your crop is not a bumper one or your cattle are not fat, you have an overdraft and your tractor has just packed up, there must be a problem with your faith, they insist.

If that were the case, why did Paul, one of the greatest evangelists who ever lived say, “ I have fought the good fight.”

Why did he have to fight if we are supposed to just name it and claim it so to speak.

I believe in the Word of God and I stand firmly on it but I am fighting the fight of my life.

I am determined to finish the race at all costs.

Like Paul, I want to be able to say at the end, “I have kept the faith.”

My passion is biographies and autobiographies and I have read so many of them.

I have noticed that every person God has used mightily has suffered.

They have all fought the good fight and run their race to the end, and God has seen that they persevered and won the crown of victory.

Do not let the accuser of the brethren, the devil himself, discourage you because you are going through a fiery trial today.

Know one thing - many mighty men and women of God have gone through the same trial before you and many will go through it after you.

The Lord says, “Grit your teeth, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus, and press on.”

Keep on running in a forward direction.

Be like Job who said:

“Even though He slay me, yet will I (still) trust Him.” Job Chapter 13 and verse 15.

Fight the fight, run the race, keep the faith and God will do the rest.