How are things going right now for you? Are they everything you ever hoped for or are they slightly disappointing because you were hoping they would turn out differently?
Dad and I have been talking a lot lately about paying the dues. In order to do the things we have always dreamed about we have to put something into it, and many times it requires us to do things now as a down payment for our future happiness.
I like to think of it as short term consequences for the long term benefits. It helps to keep things in perspective for me. I love the passage in Galatians that tells us we will receive the harvest at the proper time if we do not give up. I was reading a book called Good to Great that talks about the flywheel effect. The concept is that things take a long time sometimes to get going. To make one turn on the flywheel can take weeks, months, and even years, but the next turn goes much faster and the next even faster and pretty soon its going quickly and steadily.
It's easy sometimes to want to give up on things, and there are definitely times where that is appropriate. That book talked as much about not doing the wrong things as doing the right things, but when there is a situation that you know is right, keep praying, keep studying, keep pressing on! Don't give up! Success may be just around the corner. It may not, but can you imagine what life would be like if Edison had given up because success hadn't been around the next corner but hundreds later. The task may seem daunting, but if it is worthy it is worth your efforts.
"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers." ~Galatians 6:9,10
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