Today is Friday, May 2nd, 2008; Karen's Korner #1305
A daily devotional email sent to me last October by Shirley Choat:
"Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong." 1 Corinthians 16:13
"We must remember that it it not in any easy or self-indulgent life that Christ will lead us to greatness. The easy life leads not upward, but downward. Heaven always is above us, and we must ever be looking up toward it. There are some people who always avoid costly things, and that which requires self-denial, self-restraint or sacrifice. But toil and hardship show us the only way to nobleness. Greatness comes not by having a mossy path made for you through the meadow, but by being sent to cut out a roadway by your own hands. Are you going to reach the mountain splendors?
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men and women. Do not pray for tasks equal to your power. Pray for powers equal to your taks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
Be strong, we are not here to play, to dream, to drift;
We have hard work to do, and loads to lift.
Shun not the struggle; face it. 'Tis God's gift.
Be strong, it matters not how deep entrenched the wrong,
How hard the battle goes, the day how long,
Faint not, fight on, tomorrow comes the song.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - Stand up, speak out, and bravely pray, in God's name.
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