-Luke 9:62
Understand that many people today have stalled out in terms of their forward progress. They might want to be moving forward, but for whatever reason they are not. They are at a standstill. One danger of stalling out in our faith is not only can we begin to stagnate, but we can begin to digress rather than progress. There is another word for digress I could have used and you can probably guess what it is; that’s right; backslide. When a believer begins to backslide, what has happened is his forward motion has ceased. And he has remained for so long in that condition that he begins to slide backward.
He may not even be fully aware of it at that moment, but there he goes, slowly sliding away from fellowship with God. Of course there are others who don’t just slowly backslide away, but they nosedive out of fellowship with the Lord. Regardless of which one it is that is never where the believer should be. So where should we be in our walk with God? We should be moving forward in faith, trusting God every moment of every day, patiently and consistently progressing with Him. But that cannot happen unless we love the Lord with all of our hearts. The question is, do we love the Lord so much that we’ll do whatever it takes to move forward in our walk with Him? Resolve to begin moving forward with the Lord with no turning back. Therein are joy, peace, and spiritual victory.
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