Devotional by Evangelist Tim Green; from Baptist Bread
I John 5:4b ...And this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
In an old, downtown church I found this motto: "A TASK WITHOUT A VISION IS DRUDGERY; A VISION WITHOUT A TASK IS A DREAM; A TASK WITH A VISION IS VICTORY." The message was thought provoking and its theme inspiring.
All of us have labored at some task and the toil has soon turned into drudgery (read: pulling weeds or washing windows). Some have had ideas that were nothing more than pipe dreams, because there was no substance to them and no effort put forth to bring them to pass. However, when a noble task and an inspired vision are wed, victory can and will be the result. Some men have dreams of building a grand work for God, but they leave our the key word--WORK! Others have invested their lives in fruitless effort, far outside and away from the will of God. What a drearisome existence that soon becomes!
Victory and the spirit of the overcomer is founded in the bedrock of Bible faith. Faith in the unseen hand of God at work and the evidence of His efforts are plain for all to see. Faith is not an item to boast about having but a secure ingredient in the walk of the child of God.
Abraham, the father of the faithful, saw the proof of God's victory and heard it proclaimed, "God... calleth those things which be not as though they were." (Rom. 4:17b).
I John 5:4b ...And this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
In an old, downtown church I found this motto: "A TASK WITHOUT A VISION IS DRUDGERY; A VISION WITHOUT A TASK IS A DREAM; A TASK WITH A VISION IS VICTORY." The message was thought provoking and its theme inspiring.
All of us have labored at some task and the toil has soon turned into drudgery (read: pulling weeds or washing windows). Some have had ideas that were nothing more than pipe dreams, because there was no substance to them and no effort put forth to bring them to pass. However, when a noble task and an inspired vision are wed, victory can and will be the result. Some men have dreams of building a grand work for God, but they leave our the key word--WORK! Others have invested their lives in fruitless effort, far outside and away from the will of God. What a drearisome existence that soon becomes!
Victory and the spirit of the overcomer is founded in the bedrock of Bible faith. Faith in the unseen hand of God at work and the evidence of His efforts are plain for all to see. Faith is not an item to boast about having but a secure ingredient in the walk of the child of God.
Abraham, the father of the faithful, saw the proof of God's victory and heard it proclaimed, "God... calleth those things which be not as though they were." (Rom. 4:17b).
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