Date: Tuesday, 10th December, 2024
Text: 2 Timothy 2:3
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
Believers in Christ are not called to be spiritual civilians but soldiers. Soldiers are professionally trained to possess certain ethics that transform them into the personality they become.
Training is a process and process takes time. However, for those of them that can endure to the end, they get certified and decorated.
Soldiers are trained to be tough; they develop skills that make them resilient in the midst of adverse situations. In the army training school, they make them pass through difficult terrains so that their bodies are adjusted and adapted to surviving impossible situations.
The key skill developed here is called endurance. Endurance is the ability to withstand hardship or adversity. It is the capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity without withdrawing or falling apart.
The word of God says, “Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.’ 2 Timothy 2:3. Take note that it takes hardness or toughness to be a good soldier. Such a person can triumph on any spiritual terrain.
Again the Holy Scripture says, “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.” James 1:12
The attribute of endurance is also known as a perseverance or long-suffering, a fruit of the Holy Spirit- Galatians 5:22. You cannot afford not to possess this great spiritual attribute of a gallant soldier of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Prayer Nugget: Father, I ask that you increase my capacity to persevere and endure till the very end in Jesus name.