One Step at a Time – 5k or Marathon

We have now official entered the “my big old butt” days. Most people are trying to get off the excess from the holidays. I walked past the big bathroom mirror to catch a glimpse of my frame waddling by. I start another year getting rid of the extra pounds and excess of the past year.

When I use to run on greenways, this time of year had a surge of people out running and walking. Of course by February, most people have slipped back into their homes to complete another hum drum winter with no excitement until spring. There are a few that just keep going through the cold and boredom and keep on exercising no matter what the days and weeks of winter bring. If you are going to succeed at anything, you have to just keep going when it seems there is no change and you can’t see results.

Your spirit walk with the Lord is the same. You have many days that consist of just putting one foot in front of the other (of course that is how you finish a marathon – just putting one foot in front of the other for 26.2 miles). We get out of bed and do the same things over and over. I believe that is a place of great greatest spiritual and physical growth. You build leg strength by just putting one foot in front of the other for miles. You build muscle pushing weights rep after boring rep.

2 Corinthians 5:7  

For we live by faith, not by sight.

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we cannot see.

As you set your goals this year, determine to walk by faith in all areas. In your exercise, don’t get discouraged by what you see. Just keep moving your feet and doing another rep.

In your worship and prayer life, just keep on getting it done every day. Don’t be moved by how you feel or what you see. God is pleased. It is a blessing to have a child that just keeps praising by faith.

If you are sick, depressed, lonely or just tried, don’t be move by what you see or how you fell. Faith is being sure your Father will never leave you nor forsake you. Faith pushes on when there doesn’t seem to be a natural answer. Faith says: My God supplies all my needs according to HIS riches.

2 Peter 1 ³ His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.⁴ Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

⁵ For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;⁶ and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;⁷ and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.⁸ For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Mind Change: God has given me EVERYTHING I need for this life. He gave it to me by his Spirit. Today – by faith- I will receive from God what I need. I can’t see it, but by believing that God does not lie, I will complete my course and keep moving with no sign of change. When the results of your faith become visible, make sure you let others know that Your God is good all the time and His love never fails.

PS:  A Marathon is just one step at a time for 26.2 miles.   Easy – Peasy by Faith