It's Never Too Late

You have been training months to run a marathon. You spend your mornings, weekends, and nearly every minute of your free time to train to accomplish your goal. It's the day of the race, and you run. You run for miles and miles until you have one more to go. Your chest is throbbing, sweat pouring from your body, knees shaking, sides cramping, and out of breath. Your so close to finishing, but to you it seems so far. You have wanted this for so long, trained so hard, and if you give in and stop it will all be over.

1) You are in so much pain you decide you can't go on anymore. You stop as the others pass you and cross through the finish line. You see them run through the checkered black and white ribbon as you put your hands on your knees bending over to catch your breath. All of your training has been for nothing. Though you ran far, you didn't complete your goal of finish running a marathon without stopping. What do you get out of this now? Now you get to start over once more, train harder, and withstand more pain.

2) You feel the pain but know how close you are to finishing. You can't see the finish line, but you have faith that it's close. You run harder and faster, feeling every withering bit of pain in your body but finally see the black and white checkered ribbon. As you get closer you get more eager, more proud and happy that you withstood the pain because it was about to be over. You finally run through the ribbon as people from the sides cheer you on. Photos are taken, you win awards, and you accomplished your goal. You've reached the other side and don't have to look back anymore. No more pain, no more training, no more regrets.

Which scenario do you continue to chose in life? When you are struggling with your weight, your family, your friends, your relationships, what do you chose? Do you give up on moving on and bettering yourself because it's too hard, or do you withstand the pain and have faith that somewhere down the road something better is coming along? With God the struggles we go through should be rejoiced because it is making us stronger and giving us a great opportunity to turn to God in a time of need. Nothing we do without God will give us true happiness. All the money in the world, the women, the men, the cars, then clothes... nothing will compare to the happiness in being one with Christ.

Who will you put your faith in?

2TI 2:12 if we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he
will also disown us;