Hammer and Anvil

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Hammer and Anvil

There was a time in history when each town had a blacksmith shop. The “Smithy” made every metal instrument one could imagine. It was a hot, sweaty job that required effort and endurance. All day the blacksmith’s hammers rang out a tune letting all who came near know that his heavy hammers were at work. He pounded red hot metal into everything from iron nails to wood burning stoves. Nails and horseshoes were the largest demand upon his labor. The anvil was made of hardened iron and weighed several pounds. Hammers of various sizes and weight pounded iron upon it to their own destruction. Broken handles and worn out hammer heads littered the dirt floor around the bellows blown furnace; waiting for smelting and reshaping. Many a hammer gave way to the pounding but the anvil remained intact. Its special design and strengths gave it a sort of super human quality for endurance. So it is with Christian living. Many hammers of potential destruction pound upon us daily. The Word and Love of God lay as an anvil beneath our battered souls. God tries us and designs us to withstand the storm of blows. (Hebrews 12:7” “If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?” If we endure to the end, the earth will be littered with worn out and broken hammers but the Promises of God will be unchanged. Lay your burdens upon this anvil and poundings will shape you into a useful implement fit for eternal life.

Matthew 24:13 “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” 1 Corinthians 13:7 “Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”
2 Thessalonians 1:4 “So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:”
2 Timothy 2:3 “Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”
2 Timothy 4:5 “But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.”
Hebrews 6:15 “And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.”
James 1:12 “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”
Matthew 11:29 “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.”
Matthew 11:30 “For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Know God, know peace. Amen 10-07-2020 BLL

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