- Ol’ Suit
There is something disarming about children’s television programming. Even granting that your standard kids’ TV fare will rot your brain in 72 hours or less, who can refuse to smile at the antics of SpongeBob SquarePants, Ren and Stimpy, or Pinky and the Brain?
Especially, Pinky and the Brain.
Show after show, the hapless Pinky follows, zombie-like, the commands, manipulations, and machinations of his personal hero, the Brain. And just as inevitably, all their plans come to naught, leaving a wistful Pinky and a plotting Brain to vow (as they do at the conclusion of every show) that “tomorrow we take over the world!”
How much we in the world of the church need a Pinky and the Brain kind of determination! How desperately we need to resolve to end each day – even each defeat or discouragement – with a commitment to tackle our task with renewed energy tomorrow!
Galatians 6:9 says “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” A Pinky and the Brain translation would run something like this: “Don’t quit, no matter what, for tomorrow we take over the world!”
Do you believe that ours is a mission that is destined to triumph? Think! Do you really believe in the invincibility of our cause? That, for those who “fight the good fight of faith”, a victorious outcome is ultimately inevitable? That’s what God says. Isaiah 40:5 plainly declares: “And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
Or have we forgotten what Habakkuk said in Habakkuk 2:14: “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” The day still comes when every knee shall bow and every tongue confesses ‘Jesus Christ is Lord!’ How, then, dare we allow ourselves to become weary in doing God’s bidding and will?
John Wesley once said, “Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergy or lay, such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the Kingdom of God upon earth.”
Let us be among that 100. Let us be those who make the very gates of hell rattle and yield! Let us carry the conviction that every deed of obedience on our part today is preparing the way for the King and His Kingdom!
And, just think! Tomorrow, we take over the world!
1 John 5:4 “…for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.”
