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PARABLE:
There's a simple parable in here...
Whether Music / Sports / Art / Computer programs /
Whatever... we instinctively know:
Only way to truly ENJOY them as fun & not just work
is to Practice--
& keep on even when we're not yet as good
as we could become... Soooo...
Why is it that we often pray for just 5 minutes (maybe 10) & read God's Word about that much each day- Maybe. ?? ...
When God inspired Paul to write Philippians 2,
He was NOT saying that "work out your own salvation" means to EARN it.
Entire book is about 2:6, "holding fast the word of life."
What does LORD God say ??
With the SPORTS / MUSIC Practice's ENCOURAGEMENT theme:
"so that I may REJOICE in the day of Christ
that I have not run in vain or labored in vain."
Cool Miracle: Flipped on Oldies TV: THIS VERY DAY,
this VERY SAME Leave It to Beaver episode that inspired this
parable idea years ago is playing *NOW*. Whoa, God!
SO WHAT ??
Praying or reading the Bible is NOT a matter of "success" but of Endurance... James 1.
Why do we NOT "practice" these?
Often Satan is whispering in our ears,
"You're too dumb to ever understand scriptures... or to "pray right"....
QUIT before you fail."
God's INVITATION: John 14:26, His Holy Spirit will HELP you! PRoMISED!
WHAT does God's Word say?
Galatians 6:9, "Let us not grow weary in well-doing,
for in due time we will reap a harvest, if we do not give up."
Prayer:
God, help me to learn to STOP QUITTING when things feel hard, when I feel frustrated,
when I feel "like a failure".... when I'm afraid that
if I keep practicing, I might discover I'm a failure.....
HELP ME, I pray.... to ENDURE.
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