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The certainty of this woman regarding Jesus’ compassion and power, together with her determination to reach him, brought her success. (The English version draws out the force of the verb, what she “kept saying” to herself. This was her motivating self-speech.)
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Work of faith” refers not to the meetings of the church on the first day of the week, but to the Thessalonians’ constant and daily efforts in the kingdom among the pagans around them.
Meditation based on phrase in 1Th 1.3, "work of faith."
On July 4, 1952, a young woman named Florence Chadwick waded into the water off Catalina Island with the intention of swimming the channel to the California coast. Long-distance swimming was not new to her; she had been the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions.
The water was numbing cold that day. The fog was so thick she could hardly see the boats in her party. Several times sharks had to be driven away with rifle fire. She swam more than fifteen hours before she asked to be taken out of the water. Her trainer tried to encourage her to swim on since they were so close to land, but when Florence looked, all she saw was fog. So she quit…only one mile from her goal! Later she said, “I’m not excusing myself, but if I could have seen the land I might have made it.”
It wasn’t the cold or fear or exhaustion that caused Florence Chadwick to fail. It was the fog.
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Do not tell a man of God that he cannot do what God has told him to do. Have you been guilty of that? On the other hand, have you been like David, doing fearlessly what God told you to do?
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A man’s faith in himself wavers because he knows his foibles and limitations, his fears and doubts. A man’s faith in God may also waver, but not because of any deficiency in the Creator. The more one studies God, the more one’s faith grows.
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