God Wants Persistent Plodders! Part One—
An ox is a persistent plodder. When you feed an ox, it does not bray like a donkey. It just gets out and plows. Give it some oats and it will plow, plow, and plow. More oats; more plow. No bellyaching, it just plods and plows. Let me tell you something, friend. God is not looking for flash and dash. He’s looking for persistent plodders. Those with flash and dash will fall in the ditch. God is looking for the oxen who will put their shoulders to the wheel and pull, who are committed to discipline, determined to finish the race for the purposes of God.
Perseverance is the portrait of the saints. How can you tell who’s a Christian? Certainly not by what they say. You can talk the talk and not walk the walk. Certainly not by what they write. If the glowing reports on the pages of every religious book were true, the devil would be in the back end of hell drinking Maalox and waving a white flag, screaming, “No more!” So how can you tell who’s a Christian? The Bible gives the answer: by their fruit. Fruit cannot be produced in a day. Fruit cannot be produced in a week. Fruit takes months and years to come to maturity. The point is, you can’t tell who is a persistent Christian until you have seen their fruit, and that takes time. Only the persistent will produce fruit.
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