In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in
Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and
impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and
being deceived.
But as for you, continue
in what you have learned and have become convinced of,
because you know those from whom you learned it, and
how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures,
which are able to make you wise for salvation through
faith in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:12-15
When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable,
and the mortal with immortality,
then the saying that is written will come true:
“Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is
your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is
the law.
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm.
Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves
fully to the work of the Lord,
because you know that your labor in the Lord
is not in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:54-58
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
Psalm 42:1,2
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
Psalm 116:15
“A harp stood in the moveless air,
Where showers of sunshine washed a thousand fragrant blooms;
A traveler bowed with loads of care
Essayed from the morning till the dusk of evening glooms
To thrum sweet sounds from the songless strings;
The pilgrim strives in vain with each unanswering chord,
Until the tempest’s thunder sings,
And, moving on the storm, the fingers of the Lord
A wondrous melody awakes;
And though the battling winds their soldier deeds perform,
Their trumpet-sound brave music makes
While God’s assuring voice sings love across the storm.”
anonymous
Merely to mark time in missionary work during the war is a fatal blunder.
We must go forward. Let the call of Christ be heard and heeded through
the din of the world’s conflict, and let the Church rise to a worthy
endeavor to accomplish speedily the work entrusted to her.
Rowland Bingham (1872-1942)
