MISSION

2 Timothy 2:3-4 (KJV)
“3  Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.”
We had a saying in the 82nd Airborne Division, “If it aint raining it aint training.” We would spend days out in the cold rain and was taught to ignore it. The mission becomes more important than comfort.
Living in the spirit must become our mission. The mission is at hand, adapt and overcome. We must not allow the affairs of this life to become our comfort forfeiting our purpose as a good soldier in Christ. The endurance it takes to accomplish our mission becomes our comfort; in this, our mind is able to ignore any resistance that may be present.
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds” (Hebrews 12:1-3).