Post on 18-Dec-2015
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You could hear statements such as:
"Oh, its WAY too difficult!!
They will NEVER make it to the top."
A contestant asked the tiny frog how the one who succeeded had found the strength to reach the goal?
DISCOURAGEMENTcan be lethal...
We are also in a race.. A race for everlasting life
The Devil uses discouragement as a weapon because it often works. The Devil well knows the negative effect that discouragement can have on a servant of God.
Even a person who has endured outright opposition and persecution may fall prey to discouragement.
We might face different types of discouragement from different sources..maybe in the ministry from
opposers, from family members or relatives, from members in the congregation, friends,etc
that maybe intentional or unintentional.
It would be best NOT to dwell on unkind or negative remarks butkeep your focus on the race. Like the frog be DEAF to these remarks.
We are not alone in this race. We have our loving spiritual brothers running alongside us. While Satan provides the discouragement, let Jehovah provide the encouragement through us..
May we NEVER discourage a fellow believer. Instead let us follow the apostle Paul’s good counsel at 1 Thessalonians 5:11: “Keep comforting one another and building one another up, just as you are in fact doing.”
So“Let us run with
endurance the race that is set
before us,” fully confident that
“in due season we shall reap if we do not tire out.”
Hebrews 12:1; Galatians 6:9.