[Manna - March 18]
Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 1:13
HAVING..."girded up the loins of your mind" for a
long, steady and determined effort, "be sober"; do not
allow yourself to become excited and, under the spur
of excitement, to exhaust all your spiritual vitality in
a very short time, and then to suffer a relapse into
coldness or discouragement; but thoughtfully to consider
and prepare for a long and patient endurance of
all the discipline and trial of faith and patience necessary
to prove an overcomer and worthy of the blessed
reward promised "to him that overcometh."
The
race before us is not one to be run by fits and starts,
but by "patient continuance in well doing." Z.'03-54 R3149:3