| God’s Word tells us that God is always faithful, and our Lord’s promise to His own is “lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” Therefore there are certain things which we who know Him are to do always, at all times, regularly. “He spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint.” “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” Moreover, we are to “rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice,” even when “sorrowful, yet always rejoicing,” and “always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.” We are to be “giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” and to “be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.” And “let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man,” and “be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.” |
