Gold Nugget 294 - To the Brave

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      In viewing our human life, we are tempted into one or other of two extremes.  To the worldly and the careless, especially when young and prosperous, life seems easy.  They are conscious of no temptation, for they yield at once to each congenial suggestion.  They are ignorant of struggles, for to them life has never shaped itself as a moral warfare.

      But there are those who are ever oppressed by a constant sense of the solemnity of life.  To such the conflict is a daily and inevitable fact.  They cannot drift adown the current; yet, strike out as bravely as they will, they feel as though they made no headway against the waters, as though they could never reach the shore.  Struggle they must, they do; yet with many failures and with faint hope of final success.

      Now, Christianity rebukes the first of these classes for frivolity, the second for faithlessness.  The Scriptures ever represent our life as a spiritual conflict; yet they ever summon us to fight the good fight of faith with hopeful hearts; the battle is fierce, but to the brave the victory is sure.

 

The Pulpit Commentary, Romans p. 463, Romans 16:20, (J. Radford Thomson)

 

Gold Nugget 294

To the Brave

 

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