It’s the seventy second day of the year. Where are you on the Discipleship Dare? I finished on the forty-third day since we started on January 3. Don’t beat yourself up if you didn’t make it by the fortieth day. I was highly motivated.
For some reason some people were knocked off course during the snow storms. Kids were home needing more attention. Schedules were changed which throw us off center. It’s not everyday you are snowed in with your husband and kids with hot chocolate, French toast and all kinds of other goodies, movies, games and snow shoveling.
Hebrews chapter 12 in verse 1 tells us to “run with perseverance the race that is marked out for us.” Perseverance means we don’t give up. If we stumble, we dust ourselves off and get back up. If we get distracted we refocus. If we get hurt we allow ourselves to heal and get back on the race track. If you got off course, determine to start back where you left off and finish the Dare. There’s no disgrace in being slower at finishing. Finishing the course is what is important.
Determine here and now, “I will pick up the Dare again, start where I left off and finish. A disciple is a follower of Christ. In your walk with Christ there will be distractions, failures, wounds, discouragements to throw you off course. You don’t just give up saying, “I just can’t do it.” That is a lie. God in you is greater than any setback. Philippians 1:6 says, “Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Jesus doesn’t give up on you so don’t give up on your commitment as a disciple. Recommit to the Dare and see what God will do in you.
Lord, thank you for your patience with us. Thank you also for your power to compete whatever you have asked us to finish.
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