I am, once again, at a point of facing a challenge……one with a deadline as well. It is a familiar challenge….a place I’ve been several times. I know that God is with me, but I still have to do the work. I would rather have a short cut…..a guarantee. But there is none. Life is that way. Each day we simply have to get up and do “the next right thing”, as Elizabeth Elliott used to say, praying that we have the day’s priorities right and that we are in God’s will. If we are, then it will work out. Sigh If it were not this present challenge, it would be another. It seems, at times, that there is no end to the challenges as long as one breathes and is faithfully seeking God’s will. Forces of this world will array themselves against the progress being made toward building the Kingdom. But God will sustain us in the journey and, though the progress seems slow, there is progress nonetheless…..and we will have the joy of seeing it all completed someday…in this life or the next. That is the hope that sustains us each day. (8/17/2016)
