But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. Acts 20:24
If we are going to be God's people we must be "unmovable".
Being unmovable is being steadfast in our walk with God.
The definition for steadfast is to be constant, firm, unwavering, determined, singlemindedness, unflinching, unfatigable.
Are you determined that nothing is going to move you from the Rock Jesus Christ?
Have things come your way that tempts you to move away from the Rock? How are you when the going gets tough?
There is a price to pay for serving God.
We have to count the cost and that means we may have to seperate ourselves from:
- old associations
- our own way
- things of the world
- wordly social life-style
- our own families behaviors
- time
- our fleshly desires
If we do these things we will enjoy the presence of God in our lives and have God's blessings on us as long as we are willing to count the cost.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. Romans 8:35-37
God tells us over and over again in the bible that if we obey and serve the Lord He will be with us but if we get careless and go our own way we will have trouble.
Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left; Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you: Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you. Joshua 23:6, 12-13
The Word of God is an encouragement to us and a warning so it is important to take heed to what we are shown.
Even if we think we are strong we can fall if we do not lean on the Lord.
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 1 Corinthians 10:12-13
With God's help we will overcome and prevail in our service to God.
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