(August 11, 2013)
How is it that we are so foolish as to think that salvation is an easy thing to receive? It isn’t an accident that the Lord chose the word “endure” in the phrase “endure to the end.” He did not say that we were to ‘skate by’ to the end, or ‘drift’ to the end, but to ‘endure’ to the end. Enduring, in my mind, necessarily includes opposition (and strenuous opposition at that) in direct conflict to our course of behavior. Endure also connotes suffering or discomfort of some kind. Could it be that, by very definition, if we are not in the moment of experiencing some trial, suffering, discomfort, or other opposition to our chosen path to follow the Lord, that we are not at that moment “enduring to the end” because we are also not, at that moment, ‘enduring’ anything?
On the other hand, that might be the lawyer in me wresting the scriptures a bit too far.
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