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A Loyal Soldier
"You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please Him who enlisted him as a soldier."
2 Timothy 2:3-4
Oswald Chambers.
"The first requirement of the worker is discipline voluntarily entered into. It is easy to be passionate, easy to be thrilled by spiritual influences, but it takes a heart in love with Jesus Christ to put the feet in His footprints , and to square the life to a steady 'going up to Jerusalem' with Him.Discipline is the one thing the modern Christian knows nothing of, we won't stand discipline nowadays. God has given me an experience of His life and grace, therefore I am a law unto myself.
The discipline of a worker is not in order to develop his own life, but for the purposes of his Commander. The reason there is so much failure is because we forget that we are here for that one thing, loyalty to Jesus Christ.... If a soldier is not prepared to be killed, he has no business to have enlisted as a solider.
The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.
Our Lord Himself is the example of a disciplined life. ... He worked the works of God because He steadily submitted His will to His Father's will; and as is the Master, so is the disciple."
Morning and Evening by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, May 6, evening.
"Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
