Posted on 02/09/2021 10:32:48 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation” (Proverbs 10:25 KJV).
“As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more,” well, the problem with that is that when the whirlwind does pass—like a hurricane or a typhoon or a tornado—it does a great deal of damage. The wicked do a great deal of damage on the face of the earth, and to people.
“As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more,” they can do a whole lot of damage, and then God takes them away.
“but the righteous is an everlasting foundation,” when he passes, he leaves something significant. He leaves a godly legacy. You take men like Dr. DeHaan, or G. Beacham Vick or Dr. Bob Jones Sr., they left behind them a heritage. The work that they did on this earth left a foundation for after they died that is still bearing fruit. Clarence Larkin wrote his book on Dispensational Truth and it is still being enjoyed though he has been with the Lord for almost a century (1924).
The things that the righteous do, last—when the wicked depart, very seldom does anything they have done remain.
WE NEVER KNOW . . .
Paul did not know, when he was three years in Arabia, that God was getting him ready to be an apostle in his witness to the whole world.
Joshua did not know, when he walked alongside as the humble servant of Moses through some forty years, that God was getting him ready to take up Moses' work when Moses should pass away.
Elisha did not know, when· he drove the oxen, plowing in. the field, that a little later he was to take the mantle of the intrepid and powerful Elijah and carry on God's work when Elijah had gone away.
We never know what God is getting us ready to do, but we do know that the way of promotion is by the way of fidelity.
The highest criterion of character in the sight of God is fidelity. Jesus taught that if we are faithful in the least, we shall be faithful in much, but if we are unfaithful and unjust and untrue in the little things, we shall not measure up when the mighty demands are upon us.
The way of promotion is the way of faithfulness.
“Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” Faithful unto death--that is, die any time before you will shirk or be deflected from the right, or be untrue. Faithful unto the dying point, and you shall have the crown of life.
- George W. Truett
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