
We have been on a four-week journey of endeavoring to grasp an understanding of what James meant when he said, “Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial.” We’ve looked at the word steadfastness in depth. In today’s podcast, there’s one more place that we can walk that if we go down that avenue, we will find tremendous help. I believe the Lord wants you to be helped and encouraged in these areas. Well, in fact, He wants you to be helped in all areas. ‘Lord, you are so good to us.’ Glory to your Name. That area where the Lord wants to help us in ‘abiding’ in His Son, Jesus. There’s an absolute link between steadfastness and abiding. You can hear that these words are similar just from speaking these two words in your own hearing. A rather well-known pastor gave the following illustration on abiding. He said a dinner plate left out overnight will be hard to clean in the morning. Now, I speak to you from a place of experience here, having watched my wife Sharon in action. Sharon washes the plates in the sink so vigorously that you can hear the leftover sauce crying out for mercy as it goes down the drain. After that, she puts these already squeaky-clean plates in the dishwasher, subjecting them to even more torture. On top of that, she went and got the dishwasher supercharged. We had a repair guy come over and it is a device now of mass destruction where germs are concerned. Leftover bits have no hope — do you understand NO HOPE in the Horvath household? But this pastor said, “An alternative to scrubbing is soaking the dish in hot water and dishwashing liquid. Letting a dish abide in the solution will allow a hard cleaning job to become a lot easier. This is what abiding does for Jesus followers. We are much easier to clean up when we’ve been hanging out in the right environment. Religion says “Scrape off the dirt.” It tells us to apply elbow grease to fix a problem. Relationship says “Soak.” Just sit in the hot water for a while. Abiding will set you free.”1 We are going to talking about abiding today as it relates to steadfastness in this podcast entitled ‘Great Life Changing Lessons on Abiding in Jesus’ all on this week’s Light on Life.
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