Stick With It

[439 words] “Footprints in the sands of time are never made by sitting down.” Perseverance, endurance, and plain ole’ stubborn tenacity are needed to hold on to our hope in the midst of difficulty. If our life’s work will leave behind footprints in the sands of time, it will be because we have striven to go in a direction that is different from the well-traveled road taken by the world. The Christian life is compared to many things in the word of God. Surrounded by “so great a cloud of witness,” it is a race in which we must “lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us” and run with our eyes fixed upon Jesus, “the author and perfecter of faith” (Heb. 12:1-2). The Christian life is much like a race. But, it is not so much a sprint as it is a marathon. Speed is…