The marathon. The Struggle. The Determination!

A year ago we stared the Bible in one year marathon. I was psyched up, in fact, I was even ready to do a sprint...it seemed so easy. I was so excited about what God was going to do in my life, I was expectant...it was January 2011, a month when we make resolutions...and hope to live by them through out the year.

Come February and serious school work starts. I work a full time job, I attend evening classes from 5.30pm to 8.30pm. I get home at around 9.30pm...cook, finish my assignments, prepare for the next day, Bible study...oh and eat the food I prepared.

It becomes a struggle to read my Bible.

I doubt my ability to make it halfway through the marathon.

Maybe I have too many excuses.

I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me, right?

So, I decide to do ALL things...read my Bible while dozing off...3 chapters down. Good, I tick my chart...done for the day...I move on.

Come the next day I realize I never really understood what I read the previous day, so I have to go back and do it. This time round, it's a serious study so I don't get through one chapter and that days reading....NOT DONE! So I carry it forward to the following week.

The struggle continues.

Some chapters were left unread because they were too technical; Isaiah, Ezekiel, Numbers, Chronicles.

Then I remember, it's a real marathon. I start off well...it gets too hot somewhere along the way, I have to go uphill...sometimes on fours because the hill is too steep, the path becomes a little bit rocky...I hurt my toes.In the process, I stumble and fall, I bruise myself...

But I have to get up and keep running...fixing my eyes on the goal, the finish line. THE PRIZE!!

But in all that, what matters is the determination to finish the race. This is one race we are never behind schedule...I may get to the finish line crawling but I sure will get there. My prize? Every lesson I gather from this, a deeper relationship with my Lord, I could go on and on.

And when I get to the finish line, I start all over again.

It's a lifetime...a journey...a relationship...a walk...a continual process of getting to know HIM everyday!