Soldier on, to persist steadfastly in one's work; persevere: to soldier on until the work is done.
Words are great. I was reading in Timothy this morning because I was wide awake an hour before I needed to be. Timothy and James are my favorites in the New Testament. There is so much good stuff in them--and so compact. Plus, they aren't as hard to understand as some of the others.
The verse that caught my attention was 2 Timothy 2:3 "Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." The footnote says hardness means affliction or vexation--so anything that irritates or bothers or hurts.
In my world this means--
Endure to the end and don't let anything stupid get in the way--no matter how big or small. You signed up to be a disciple of Christ, so be one.
Soldier on doesn't mean to simply exist. It means to keep fighting. So does Endure to the end. Like it or not, doing what is right is a fight.
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Interesting phrase - "soldier on". I also heard it in a RS testimony yesterday. Sometimes I feel weak and not able to go on, but I somehow manage to anyway (even though it isn't with heartiness or optimism); am I "soldiering on" or just slugging along? Sometimes slugging feels as close as I can get to soldiering... I hope it counts for something.
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