Marching to Zion

Continuing to believe, trust, and surrender to God is a conscious and focused choice. Like a salmon who swims upstream, in this world, we must “press on” as our brother, Paul exhorts. We must keep our eyes on the prize, as we run the race to receive the crown of righteousness that has been layed up for us. We must set our faces like a flint to Jerusalem. Perhaps that is what is meant in the book of Hebrews where it says to “strive to enter the rest.”
This is especially true of believers in America where no persecution exists, and we often don’t realize how precious our faith is, and in the environment of ease and prosperity, the lines between “this present world” and the kingdom of God are lightly drawn. And so for this coming year, I ask for discernment, wisdom, and the fear of the Lord for those of us who believe so that we will endure to the end and be saved!!! O Lord, keep us!!!