From your childhood you learned, that to accomplish anything, you must keep at the task until it is finished. As you entered your first year in school, you were excited about being a student. It did not take long though, until you were ready for Summer. You knew you had to stay in school until Summer recess came. What is true of your schooling, is also true of your working career and so many other areas of your life. This is true of your spiritual life, among the others. Your spiritual pilgrimage is not a sprint; it is a marathon.
Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must out run the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter if you are a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you had better be running! That happens every single day. The day either one of them stops running is the day that they could die. Spiritually, your walk with God is a day-by-day discipline. The day you stop doing that is the day that shortly thereafter you fall into sinful behavior.
The Scriptures give you a warning about living an undisciplined life: “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Cor. 15:58). First, you must determine in your life what “the work of the Lord” is for you. Next, approach that area of your life as one who is “steadfast, immovable.” In this respect, it helps a great deal to have tunnel vison. Whatever God calls you to do, do it whole heartedly and with the long term in mind.
Yep, stick to your guns and keep on doing what God has called you to do every day of your life. The day you stop doing that is when your spiritual death is around the corner.
