After You've Done All You Can

“...in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore...”

That old warhorse Paul gives good advice to us would-be warriors, who desire to emulate his example in life’s battles. After we have done all we know to do in life’s skirmishes, says he, “Stand.” That is, stand your ground, or as the leader in combat tells his men, “Hold the line.”

We do not fight to victory; we fight from victory to victory. Our attempt is not in getting it, but in keeping it. Just as David’s mighty men were “steadfast, unmovable,” in guarding what belonged to their king, so should it be with us and our King of Kings.

When I was a boy, and there was a fight between two of us, whoever was left standing was declared the winner.  In spite of the numerous and continual punches this wicked world gave Jesus, they never knocked Him off His feet. Jesus Christ was, is, and will ever be, the last man standing! HE IS ETERNALLY THE MIGHTY VICTOR!

An illustration by C.H. Spurgeon conveys, I believe, what I am attempting to say. “In the old Roman days, when a sentry was placed in his position by his centurion, he never thought of quitting his post. Rocks might roam, but not the sentinels of the empire. There was found in Pompeii, among the ashes, a sentry, standing in his place with his javelin in his hand: he had not flinched amid the deadly shower which fell from the volcano and buried the city. His centurion, in the name of the emperor, had set him there, and there he stood."

"And having done all, to stand. Stand therefore...”