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Subject: No Stop Sign on this Road

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Hillbilly

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Date Posted: 20:48:10 06/10/14 Tue

Jeremiah 20:8-9 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

Have you ever reached the point in your Christian life that you just wanted to throw up your hands and quit. You say there is no point in butting your head against a brick wall so why keep butting. Jeremiah had reached the end of his endurance and patience. He had for years cried against the sins of Israel and had gotten no positive response nor encouragement. Quite the contrary all he garnered to himself were enemies and foes to the point they finally cast him into a dungeon. A dungeon without food nor water but only mud at the bottom in which he sank into (Jer. 38:6).

Too often we expect people to admire and honor us because we stand firm on principles and adhere to the Word of God. We proclaim Jesus is Lord and that there is a heaven to gain and a hell to shun. People don't like to hear that any more than they wanted to hear from Jeremiah that God was going to punish them with captivity at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar and if they wanted to live they would have to surrender and accept the captivity because it was at the hand of God.

We pronounce God's judgment on sin that is soon coming and people scoff and ridicule and we get discouraged. If we are called of God to be His witnesses then we have no place to quit. Paul's stopping point was when his head was severed from his body as was John the Baptist's and our stopping place is when God calls us home. There is no in between quitting place. Folks we need to get some spine and determine we are not going to quit any more than Jeremiah quit. He tried and was miserable. He could not stand that "burning fire shut up in my bones" that he could not get relief from as long as he was not proclaiming what God told him to proclaim.

If you are saved and God places a burden on you that will cost you friends and produce enemies you will have no rest until you have carried out God's will for you. Some claim that God has not burdened them with anything. I would check out my relationship with God if God never put on me something to do for Him. Our very existence here is to honor God and keep His commandments so why would you be exempt if you are a child of God?

Jeremiah started on a journey that had only one destination. There were many dangers and troubles as well as much hard labor on this journey. He started on his with God and found there were no stop signs on this road he was on.

Too many miles behind me
Too many trials are through
Too many tears help me remember
There's to much to gain to lose.

Those who don't cross the finish line don't win. What a shame that so many get down close to the end of their journey and just give up. When we get to the point we want to give up we need to pause and ask ourselves if Jesus quit on us. If a man ever had a right to quit it was our Lord. "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. " (Isa. 53:3) He went all the way and never looked back. I am saved today because He didn't quit. How can I quit?

Too many sunsets lie behind the mountains
Too many rivers my feet have walked through
Too many treasures are waiting over yonder
There's too much to gain to lose.

Oh, too many treasures are waiting over yonder
There's too much to gain to lose!

(Too Much to Gain to Lose / Dottie Rambo)

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[> Subject: A good lesson today, Hillbilly
Author: dori [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 12:13:32 06/11/14 Wed If we expect people to be happy with the good news in this day and age, we're asking for a lot of disappointment. But that doesn't mean we should give up and keep it to ourselves. if it falls on barren soil, at least we attempted to plant the seed.