[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1116":3},"NOVEMBER 16\r\nThey overcome him by the blood of the Lamb ... and they loved not their lives unto the death (Rev. 12:11).\r\nWhen James and John came to Christ with their mother, asking Him to\r\ngive them the best place in the kingdom, He did not refuse their request but told them it would be given to them if they could do  His work, drink His cup, and be baptized with His baptism.\r\nDo we want the competition? The greatest things are always hedged about by the hardest things, and we, too, shall find mountains and\r\nforests and chariots of iron. Hardship is the price of coronation.\r\nTriumphal arches are not woven out of rose blossoms and silken\r\ncords, but of hard blows and bloody scars. The very hardships that you are enduring in your fife today are given by the Master for the   explicit purpose of enabling you to win your crown.\r\nDo not wait for some ideal situation, some romantic difficulty,\r\nsome far-away emergency; but rise to meet the actual conditions\r\nwhich the providence of God has placed around you today. Your crown\r\nof glory lies embedded in the very heart of these things--those\r\nhardships and trials that are pressing you this very hour, week and month of your life. The hardest things are not those that the world\r\nknows of. Down in your secret soul unseen and unknown by any but\r\nJesus, there is a little trial that you would not dare to mention, that is harder for you to bear than martyrdom.\r\nThere, beloved, lies your crown. God help you to overcome, and sometime wear it. --Selected.\r\nIt matters not how the battle goes,\r\nThe day how long;  Faint not! Fight on!\r\nTomorrow comes the song.",1783499794038]