June 30, 2005

[Rev. Doc]

Endure

"For how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and your endure it, this is commendable before God."
I Peter 2:20

Persistence paid off for American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the planet Pluto. After astronomers calculated a probable orbit for this "suspected" heavenly body, Tombaugh took up the search in March 1929. Time magazine recorded the investigation: "He examined scores of telescopic photographs each showing tens of thousands of star images in pairs under the dual microscope. It often took three days to scan a single pair. It was exhausting, eye-cracking work--in his own words, 'brutal, tediousness.' And it went on for months. Star by star, he examined 20 million images. Then on February 18, 1930, as he was blinking at a pair of photographs in the constellation Gemini, 'I suddenly came upon the image of Pluto!" It was the most dramatic astronomic discovery in nearly 100 years.*

The tasks that God gives us to do can appear tedious or painstaking. However, in accomplishing the work before us it will bring glory to Him. Endurance has it's reward.

Prayer: Ask God to give you a heart of persistence to endure to the end.

"The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him."*
~J. Stowell

[TurkishMonky]

Welcome back!

[windtalker]

Good word. Endurance and pereverance aren't too popular anymore. We live in a culture where too many people quit and move on to the next thing when something gets difficult.

Hope the Mission Trip went well. You should post a report of how things went.