When I complain about small and inconsequential obstacles, I am reminded of Joni Eareckson Tada, confined to a wheelchair since her teen years, a quadriplegic, and yet she perseveres in kingdom work. I want to spend my last ounce of energy on the last quarter mile, racing to the end, dropping this physical body at the pearl gates and being lifted into eternity by Christ. -Cathy
Excerpted from Joni’s devotional today:
“Don’t let your heart quit. For at the proper time, we will reap!
“O Christian worker, Christian soldier, Christian pilgrim, in the midst of your “contest” and your “running” today, or in what seems the midst of it, for the end may all the while be just upon you, take heart often from the thought that even so for you, if you are true to the blessed Name, it shall one day be. The last care will have been felt and cast upon the Lord, the last exhausting effort will have been made, the last witness under difficulties borne, the last sorrow faced and entered, the last word written, the last word spoken. And then the one remaining thing will be to let the Lord, “the Man at the Gate,” lift thee in, and give thee rest.”
— Bishop Moule
Lord, when my heart gets tired and my soul gets weary, strengthen me with Your grace. Joni Eareckson Tada