Forward Ever, Backward Never. Part [3] 12/10/2025 (Morning thought)

James 1:12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

On the flipside of God’s efforts to save, you have the devil who works ingeniously, and systematically, and with energy worthy of a better cause, to get persons to turn their backs on God. He does not really care if you turn back for an apparently good reason. Once he gets folks to turn back, that’s all he cares about. In fact, he has at the ready, a multitude of apparently good reasons why persons should turn back from following Christ, and some of these could sound quite plausible.

Some of these reasons were presented to Christ as He was being severely tempted in the wilderness. At that time, one of the arguments presented was that if Jesus was the Son of God, the Father would never leave His son to suffer from hunger and thirst as was the case with Jesus on that occasion. It basically was the same argument he raised with the friends of Job, as through them, he sought to link Job’s plight to a sinful course, for as they said, God will never allow those afflictions on innocent Christians.

In other words, Job’s friend was saying that trouble does not come upon the righteous and thus, if Job is now suffering intensely, it must be something wrong he had done and therefore, according to his warped mode of thought, it seemed to make no sense for Job to continue his walk with The Lord.

Matthew 10:22 And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!

Forward Ever, Backward Never. Part [2] 12/10/2025 (Evening thought)

Psalms 41: 9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

If it happened to Jesus, it can and will happen with the Christian, as individuals seek to move forward ever, backward never…Matthew 10: 21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. One thing every Christian must always remember is that of the two invisible agencies, which battle it out for our minds one is bent on saving to the uttermost while the other is hell bent on destroying you to the guttermost.

God goes to very great lengths to save members of the human family, He pulls out all the stops, and He does everything possible to save persons from being lost. It is written in the Scripture that where sin abounds grace did much more abound, meaning that every effort that can possibly be made will be made, and The Lord will not leave one stone unturned in His efforts to save us… Isaiah 5:1 Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.

Isaiah 5:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge I pray you between me and my vineyard.

Isaiah 5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!