"Steadfast
and Immovable"
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Did your mother ever say,
"Be still and don't move!" You knew what she
meant but, oh my, how hard that was. Just then, all the
itches in the world would attack at once and just then
all those things you hadn't needed, noticed or liked,
somehow all came into view and became the must-have's in
your life. Just then, your "mostest favoritest"
friend came out of the house and was playing with the
neatest keenest coolest thing that could be imagined. And
then the squirmees, you know, those uncontrollable,
completely by surprise, muscle spasms, you know the
squirmees. And then the inevitable, you're grounded, in
trouble, and life as you once knew it became a mere dream.
In I Cor
15: 58, Paul admonishes us to do a similar thing. "Therefore
my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable..." He
has just exhorted us in the idea that the christian life
is a glorious life if we don't weaken. He reminds that
for us to get into the next life there has to be a change.
That death has no victory in us who belong to God through
Christ. But, but, that dishonorable adversary, (remember
Sun. a.m.), that dishonorable schemer, all of a sudden,
here he comes and all of those things that hadn't
bothered us before, that we hadn't noticed or needed, all
of a sudden they seem to become the must-have's, must
do's in our life.
I'm so
glad there is a finishing part to vs. 58, "...always
abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil
is not in vain in the Lord." I can
move --- without getting in trouble. There is something
for me to do and it's good stuff. Instead of trouble
there's blessing. Instead of boredom there's excitement.
Isn't that great!! Doesn't that inspire you to with Paul
say, "but, Thanks be to God, who gives
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!" In
Christ this life is good and full of blessing. This life
is worth living now and will be unexplainably beautiful
when my Lord calls me home.
Are you bored --- get
on with it --- be steadfast, immovable, always abounding
in God's good works.
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