Week 12- Perseverance
Perseverance is one of the most understated yet most-experienced elements of the spiritual journey. To be human is to persevere. Although the mountain top moments should be celebrated - where God feels near, provision is flowing and community is close - the hard reality is that so much of our Christian life is experienced in the everyday plodding.
To keep putting one foot in front of the other in amongst weariness, strain and opposition.
To model steadfastness in the hardest of seasons.
To keep going in the now and not yet.
The New Testament writers often used the example of a race when describing the Christian life. A marathon, never a sprint. Reminding us that the reason we run isn’t out of fear nor legalism, but faith and joy. Faith in the true image bearer, who left his throne to run his own race and finished it perfectly. So now when we run our own we can resist distractions and exit strategies, joyfully fixing our eyes on the One cheering us on at the finish line.
However you are embarking on the race at the moment - steadily running, plodding, crawling or even contemplating exiting - may you be given a fresh energy to press forward, hearing the invitation of the Father to trust him in what we hope for and what we might yet not see.