Columbus The Believer
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
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Everybody
knows that Columbus discovered America, but few people know Columbus
the sincere believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, who braved the dangers of
the ocean vastness mainly because it was his deep desire to bring the
gospel to the Indies. His perseverance in the face of almost
insurmountable odds should be a lesson to God’s people. Centuries before
Columbus, Paul wrote to the Corinthian believers:
“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord” (I Cor. 15:58).
This
stirring appeal of Paul to Christians everywhere (I Cor. 1:2), implies
that there is a tendency to abandon the work of the Lord through
discouragement or carelessness, for he pleads with us to be “steadfast,”
and “unmovable” — not easily shaken, reminding us that our “labor is
not in vain in the Lord.”
How we need the exhortation!
We
do not soon abandon our businesses or our homes. We work on in spite of
difficulties and obstacles, and when the outlook is darkest we often
toil the hardest. Sometimes our bodies suffer for it, but we do not
immediately give up.
If
this is so where our own affairs are concerned, how much more should it
be so where the things of God and the needy multitudes about us are
concerned! If it is so where temporal matters are concerned, how much
more should it be so where eternity is involved!
Christians,
let us awake! Let us “buy up the time!” Life is too short to fritter
away the precious moments. Let us rather neglect our own affairs than to
neglect the work of the Lord and the perishing souls about us.
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Kinta, OK 74552
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