You Don't Have to Fall

Brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.

– 2 Peter 1:10

You shall never fall... Huh? When you think about it, that's quite the statement... Most of us have been tripped up so many times by the enemy that I'm sure you're thinkin'," Burk, don't even go there..." hahaha.

But the Word of God says it doesn't have to be that way. God says... there's something that can keep us on our feet. If He said it, it must be true.. Right? 

What is it? It's Diligence.

If you've never thought about being diligent in anything, you need to start.  You need to realize how important diligence is. You need to come to the realization, and man up to the fact that you simply can't live a life of victory without it.

You can't stand strong on the Word of God if you never pick up your Bible. Just showin' up to church on Sunday morning or Wednesday Night isn't going to cut it. Yet... a lot of believers try to pull this. That's exactly why we have thousands and thousands of churches all over the world filled with born-again people who don't have enough faith to blow their own noses. There is no commitment.  No perserverance.  No diligence.

I remember a few years back, I had ministered to an older lady who was healed of cancer. She'd gotten into the Word, taken a stand of faith for her healing, and had been completely healed. But recently contacted me and said, "Brother Bryan, would you pray for me? The cancer has come back, and it's worse this go round.."

Right away I recalled the scripture the Lord had given me to stand on through my whole cancer ordeal: "No weapon formed against you shall prosper." So I said, "Grab your Bible and look up Isaiah 54:17."

In the background I could hear her whispering to someone, "Hey, do you have any idea where my Bible is?" When I heard that, it took my breath. "Why wouldn't you have your Bible right next to you, when you are goin' through such a battle?"

I'm not trying to be ugly, and I'm sure not trying to make this a leagalistic blog....So, please hear my heart....

Getting into the Word is a daily thing. Daily. The devil's out there 24 hours a day devising ways to trip you up, and destroy you. Jesus is on the throne 24 hours a day giving us power to resist the enemy, and we need to be exercising our faith all times.

If you're going to stand and survive in the days ahead, you're going to NEED a lot more than Sunday school faith. You're going to need some full-grown, mountain-moving faith, and there's only one way to get that: By gettin' into the Word more diligently than you ever have before.

Try out some diligence... Tattoo the Word of God on your heart ; and no matter how slippery, and crazy your situation gets, you won't have to worry about fallin'!

Sorry I missed out on last weeks devotional, I was illustratin' a Children's book and wasn't online much... Have a blessed week and a wonderful begining of Summer.

Burk-ster