The Time is Now

Perseverance:
- The quality that allows someone to continue trying to do something even if it is difficult.
- Continued effort to do or achieve something despite of difficulties, failure, or opposition.
- Steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.
- Steady persistence in a course or action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.

When thinking about this word today, I can't help but feel like so many parts of me fail to persevere in obedience. Recently I have been dreaming about what life would feel like if I wasn't drained constantly. How it would feel to not feel exhausted on a daily basis. To actually wake up and feel refreshed.

In times past I have misinterpreted Gods words toward my heart and flesh to push harder and get through it instead of resting in his presence and strength. In the same way I have also tried and continue to try and gain my own rest and comfort, not Gods.

- Knocking my teeth out when I was a little one
- Transferring schools because I had trouble reading
- Middle school
- High School
- Running the mile during Field Hockey Practice
- Pre-season Track Practice
- Parental Separation
- Parental Divorce
- Dysfunction
- Relative death
- Dog death
- Depressed thoughts of suicide
- My first 5k
- My first 10k
- Half Marathon(s)
- A full marathon
- Heartbreak
- Oppression 
- Broken bones
- Scrapes
- Miles and miles on bikes
- Tired limbs
- A tired heart
- Exhaustion

etc...

Looking back, God is the only reason why I was able to make it through any of that. Whether I had acknowledged Him in each of these moments or not.

The difference in all of these experiences is I can personally see where I acknowledged Gods strength above my own and where I wrestled like Jacob so many times... I can also see where I kept my arms glued to my sides instead of reaching out for Him to pull me up and carry me.

 31What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all- how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has Chosen? It is God who justifies. 34Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who dies- more than that, who was raised to life- is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
36As it is written:

"For the sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."- Romans 8:31-39


...The time is now.


-Keep Adventuring.






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