Keep the Faith

We currently live in a time when the enemy is busy, working diligently to subdue us, to take us back to an era when we were forced to wear shackles, even around our necks.

Those were times of degradation, despair, and death. We were treated worse than wild beasts, and discarded like the entrails of animals after they had been carved up for cooking and consumption.

That was their way of feeling superior and in control of lives they believed were worthless and expendable. Unbelievably, we are in the throes of those evil times, once again.

In the last sixty years, as a people, we have made too much progress for the likes of the enemy. It is obvious that they do not agree that we should be considered as equal players on the field of life, and by extension, own property or money, or control any possessions.

Therefore, there is a concerted effort to reduce us to obsolescence. This would make them extremely happy and provide them with the desperately sought-after power that they crave at all costs.

However, the task before us, is not simply to remain steadfast, immovable, and always abounding in our work, like the Apostle Paul instructed the Corinthians, because our labor will not be in vain.

Now, my friends in Christ Jesus, we are also required collectively to exercise our deep and abiding faith. And, like a well-trained army, labor together, with intensity and determination, fighting to the end, with command and control to defeat our enemy.

Therefore, “Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Galatians 6: 9. “Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory in Jesus Christ.” 1 Cor. 15:57.

Keep the faith, doing so with the spirit of determination and purpose, relentlessly pursuing a victorious result, for the sake of your promised and rightful place in God’s kingdom.

-Reverend Canon Brian Jemmott