KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
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GREAT SUCCESS DOES not always come from a single effort...
Worthwhile things are always worth trying and striving for, even if we must try again and again. In the year 1917, a tornado destroyed our home, blew it away and ruined our crops on a farm before it tore up Carbon Hill, Alabama, and left the dead and homeless in its wake. But we did not give up and quit. The next spring we found ourselves planting again, and soon we were growing a crop.
THOUGHTS: Life is much like that. Wars are not usually won by a single battle. But battle after battle must be fought before the victory is won. In a way some of these battles are lost, but victory belongs to those who win the last battle. Very few spend a long life in the service of Christ without ever getting discouraged, and for the moment, giving up in despair. But those who overcome the world are they who (if need be) try again and again--who refuse to surrender to the evil one. If they fail, they go down fighting--soon to rise again (Gus Nichols, deceased).
KneEmail: "And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart" (Gal. 6:9).