In order to have success you must persevere. One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.
--B.C. Forbes
I needed that the other day, I was a bit impatient. You see, our expansion is taking longer than originally determined and there are days in which little progress takes place and other days in which flurries of work seem to happen. All is not on the contractor either. There are finishes, chairs, upgrading tile, projection, sound and more. Catch this: Building a building (or expanding one) is a series of little decisions, planning, hard labor, dedicated giving flowing from generous hearts - it is a series of many small things coming together to accomplish a great thing.
Our lives are like that. We make over 300 decisions a day - some are huge and some are done without much thinking at all. The greatest decision we make is to never give up! To keep running the race - sometime a short loop on the coastal way and other times a long hot desert run - but all together it is the race called life. Paul Harvey said that if there is one common denominator of men whom the world calls successful it is this: They get up when they fall down.
Webster defined perseverance as: to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement . The heart of perseverance is to move forward in the midst of opposition or that which is counter to the direction we sense God wanting to take us. Some obstacles may seem overwhelming and without value - schedules that don't work, building timelines that are not met, finances that you had hoped would have been released but are not. In all of it we need to see the power and purpose of God.
“Every experience that God gives us, every personHe puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for thefuture that only he can see.” —Corrie Ten Boom
Walter Elliot said, "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." While some would define perseverance as one consistent day after another, the fact is that no one is consistently consistent in all things 100% of the time. I love Paul's use of the phrase "press on" in Philippians 3. It communicates the idea of not just trying, but trying again. It speaks well of not giving up when others have and not allowing the timelines to through you off, even if others are off. Paul admits that he is not perfect and that he has not yet attained all that he desires to be. He still is trying to embrace why God embraced Him. Ah, the adventure of our lives. (Philippians 3. 13-14) But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal ... Can I encourage you to do the same? Go ahead and run all the races in front of you, but only as they come.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. --William Feather
Perseverance isn't so much a matter of winning one long marathon as it is a matter of completing the short races day after day, hour after hour. It requires us to press on, even after minor setbacks and temporary defeats. To try again! Perseverance is a lifetime accomplishment ... lived out one day at a time.
Mistakes are easy, mistakes are inevitable, but there is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on. --William Blake
Let's choose the Lord's way and not give up,!
--B.C. Forbes
I needed that the other day, I was a bit impatient. You see, our expansion is taking longer than originally determined and there are days in which little progress takes place and other days in which flurries of work seem to happen. All is not on the contractor either. There are finishes, chairs, upgrading tile, projection, sound and more. Catch this: Building a building (or expanding one) is a series of little decisions, planning, hard labor, dedicated giving flowing from generous hearts - it is a series of many small things coming together to accomplish a great thing.
Our lives are like that. We make over 300 decisions a day - some are huge and some are done without much thinking at all. The greatest decision we make is to never give up! To keep running the race - sometime a short loop on the coastal way and other times a long hot desert run - but all together it is the race called life. Paul Harvey said that if there is one common denominator of men whom the world calls successful it is this: They get up when they fall down.
Webster defined perseverance as: to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement . The heart of perseverance is to move forward in the midst of opposition or that which is counter to the direction we sense God wanting to take us. Some obstacles may seem overwhelming and without value - schedules that don't work, building timelines that are not met, finances that you had hoped would have been released but are not. In all of it we need to see the power and purpose of God.
“Every experience that God gives us, every personHe puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for thefuture that only he can see.” —Corrie Ten Boom
Walter Elliot said, "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." While some would define perseverance as one consistent day after another, the fact is that no one is consistently consistent in all things 100% of the time. I love Paul's use of the phrase "press on" in Philippians 3. It communicates the idea of not just trying, but trying again. It speaks well of not giving up when others have and not allowing the timelines to through you off, even if others are off. Paul admits that he is not perfect and that he has not yet attained all that he desires to be. He still is trying to embrace why God embraced Him. Ah, the adventure of our lives. (Philippians 3. 13-14) But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal ... Can I encourage you to do the same? Go ahead and run all the races in front of you, but only as they come.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. --William Feather
Perseverance isn't so much a matter of winning one long marathon as it is a matter of completing the short races day after day, hour after hour. It requires us to press on, even after minor setbacks and temporary defeats. To try again! Perseverance is a lifetime accomplishment ... lived out one day at a time.
Mistakes are easy, mistakes are inevitable, but there is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on. --William Blake
Let's choose the Lord's way and not give up,!
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Kudos.
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