Endurance

There are times when what we count as the most essential is available in the negative.

There are times when our adversaries will have all that we do not have. 

The times when you will have sit up when you should be lying down, 

stand when your knees are too weak but to sit, 

walk when you can only manage to stand, 

run when you only have the strength to walk. 

Having too little to live for, much less to live with, all odds on only one, only you.

When the mouth goes dry at that crucial time when you need to cry out for help. 

That is the time when the true persona of every man is placed on the edge of his limits, and there he lives or let’s go of all hope. 

That is when he knows and he is known. 

That’s when the colour of what one believes reflects from the chambers of his heart for all to see. 

Ooh how we need to develop endurance! 

For he will be like a tree planted by the water,

That extends its roots by a stream

And will not fear when the heat comes;

But its leaves will be green,

And it will not be anxious in a year of drought

Nor cease to yield fruit.

(Jer 17:8)

You are made for this and for a lifetime.