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Everything in life requires each of us to exert effort and the effort sometimes seems to become extremely difficult and unbearable.
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This is especially true of work that God has called us to do.
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This is why so few have stayed the course in the work of the high calling of God.
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It is the basic nature of our weak flesh to take the easiest pathway that leads downhill to sin and destruction.
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Most of the time the hard pathway is the right pathway because it is usually the pathway that leads uphill to a higher moral plain.
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Brethren, the scripture calls Jesus the mountain of the Lord and not the valley of the Lord.
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Sin is called the valley of sin.
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Follow the right pathway that goes up the steep incline to the mountain of God, no turning back. Amen.
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