Die—Then You Can Stop Being Faithful! by John hagee

Revelation 2:10—Be thou faithful unto death.

Unto Death—Not Until Someone Insults You, Not Until You Get Your Feelings Hurt, But When You Die—Then You Can Stop Being Faithful!

Persistence is Abraham looking for a city whose builder and maker was God, and not finding it until he died and saw the Lord.  Persistence is Noah building an ark for 120 years without a Black & Decker saw and without a government grant.  Persistence is Job attending the funeral of his children, watching his wealth vanish, his health failing, and listening to his sharptongued wife who told him to curse God and die.  But Job said, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him” Job 13:15.

Persistence is a decision.  Matthew 24:13 says, “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”  Who is the winner in the Olympics?  Not the one who starts, the one who finishes.  The starting gun is fired and they all begin to run.  Sweat pours down their faces.  Tiredness sets in as they strain toward the finish line.  Exhaustion overtakes one and he drops out.  Another trips and falls.  Each runner feels the lungs burning, trying to get more air.  Finally, one crosses the finish line.  Who is it that wins?  He that endures to the end.

Finish what you start.  Don’t let your life be just beginnings and there’s never a conclusion to anything.  Finish!  A child of God endures and finishes his assignment.