If You Want to Be Victorious - Hold On

 

For just as our Heavenly Father does we Win our Victories by Holding To It.

We Conquer, Not in any brilliant fashion...

We Conquer by Continuing. 

We master shorthand when we stick to shorthand. 

We master Shakespeare when we stick to Shakespeare. 

Wandering cattle are lean kine, whether they pasture in Britain or in Beulah. 

A certain Radiant and Quiet doggedness has been one of the Marks of all the saints, for whom the trumpets have sounded on the other side. 

In the log-book of Columbus there is one entry more common than all others...

It is not "Today the wind was favorable."

It is "Today we sailed on."

And to sail on, every Common day, through fog and storm, and with mutiny on board, is the one way to the country of our dreams. 

Days come when everything seems Doubtful, when the Vision of the unseen is very dim. 

Days come when we begin to wonder if there can be a loving God at all. 

My dear reader, Hold To It. 

Continue Trusting. 

Keep On Keeping On. 

It is thus that Christian character is built. 

It is thus the "Well done" is heard at last.

~George Morrison

The Importance Of Abiding At All Times

Luke 9:62  And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. 

We see that with peculiar clearness when we meditate on the great word Abide. 

That was one of the favorite words of Jesus. 

With those deep-seeing eyes of His He has discerned the wonder of the vine-branch. 

The branch was there-abiding in the vine-not only in the sunny days of vintage. 

It was there when shadows fell... 

And when the dawn was icy...

And when the day was colorless and cloudy...

And when the storm came sweeping down the glen. 

Through all weathers...

Through every change of temperature... 

Through tempest and through calm...

The branch was there. 

Night did not sever that Intimate Relationship. 

Winter did not end that Vital Union. 

And our Lord recognized that...

As in the world of nature this is the secret and the source of fruitfulness...

So is it also in the world of Grace. 

To Abide is not to Trust merely...

Abide is to Continue Trusting...

It is to Hold To It...

And Hold To Him...

Through Summer and Winter...

Through Fair and Stormy weather...

Nothing could better show the Master's Vision of the Great and Heavenly Grace of Holding To It...

Than His Love for that great word Abide.

~George Morrison

If We Don't Believe GOD We Cannot Enter Into The Rest Of GOD!!!

We have no right to go to the unsaved and bid them come to Christ and find rest Until And Unless We Ourselves Know That Rest. 

Our testimony and our ministry is Jeopardized, Weakened, Limited and Discredited IF We Are Not Ourselves In Rest...

And This Is The Object of the Enemy's Activity in this matter...

To Discredit us by Taking From Us that very Birthright Of Our Union With Him Who is Never Perturbed, Never Anxious, Never In Doubt as to the issue, the One Who Reigns. 

You see, rest is the practical outworking of our belief that He is Lord...

And the Very Lordship of Christ is Struck at by the Unrest of the people of God....

Do not think that it is necessarily such-and-such things that account for our condition. 

These may be contributing factors, they may be very testing, may bear upon us very heavily. 

Physical matters – yes, they do press, they do make the situation exceedingly difficult, they do make a difference. 

Circumstances in which we have to live our lives, they do make a lot of difference, they make the situation exceedingly difficult. 

We say, "If only the Lord would deal with this physical matter or these circumstances or this something else!"

It is all due to that, that is the cause of it, the reason for it...

That is our way of reasoning, but it is not the Lord's thought at all. 

The thing is Deeper Down than that, and it is simply a matter of Believing God; Resolute Faith, Confidence In God. 

The Lord is trying to get us out of our variable and varying soul life where we are at the Mercy of all our Feelings, Thoughts and Reasonings and all that kind of thing...

Into a realm where, in Spirit, we are Steadfast. 

That is the point upon which it is all fixed in the Psalm. "Their heart was not steadfast with Him"...

Psa 78:37  For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. 

And around that the whole of their forty years is gathered. 

The Key To This Is Spiritual...

Tested by Every other line, Every other means, it is a Spiritual Matter Ultimately. 

To be Strengthened with Might by His Spirit in the Inward man is the Answer to it all.

Eph 3:16  That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 

~T. Austin Sparks