WORD OF THE DAY:
     BE STEADFAST

          " But thanks be to God, which giveth us the
          victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

          Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast,
          unmoveable, always abounding in the work of
          the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour
          is not in vain in the Lord."

     "Be ye steadfast....Seated, sedentary, (Robinson;) perhaps with an allusion to a statue,
     (Bloomfield;) or perhaps to wrestling, and to standing one's ground, (Wolf.) Whatever
     may be the allusion, the sense is clear. Be firm, strong, confident in the faith, in view of the
     truth that you will be raised up. Be not shaken or agitated with the strifes; the temptations,
     and the cares of life. Be fixed in the faith, and let not the power of sin, or the sophistry of
     pretended philosophy, or the arts of the enemy of the soul, seduce you from the faith of
     the gospel.

     Unmoveable. Firm, fixed, stable, unmoved. This is probably a stronger expression than
     the former, though meaning substantially the same thing--that we are to be firm and
     unshaken in our Christian hopes, and in our faith in the gospel.

     Always abounding in the work of the Lord. Always engaged in doing the will of God;
     in promoting his glory, and advancing his kingdom. The phrase means, not only to be
     engaged in this, but to be engaged diligently, laboriously; excelling in this.

      The "work of the Lord" here means, that which the Lord requires; all the appropriate
      duties of Christians. Paul exhorts them to practice every Christian virtue, and to do all
     that they could do to further the gospel among men. "

          They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is
          bowed down: they have digged a pit before me,
          into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves.
          Selah.

          My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will
          sing and give praise.

     -Carol Kenreigh