"Following Me is not always happiness and skipping through the daisies. That is the result of following Me. Following Me is the hardest thing you will ever do, and it takes all you have."
This seriously explains so much. I think about all the people who give up and abandon God because it was hard; confused and angry because it wasn't easy and, well, skipping through daisies.
How easily do we, even we who haven't abandoned God, decide it's too hard on a daily basis? It takes such a small amount of convincing to make me push my quiet time off another hour, another hour, another hour, till all of a sudden it's time for bed and I still haven't spend time with God.
Can you imagine if we acted this way in other areas of our lives? Imagine if in every married couple, at the VERY first tiny little suggestion that maybe they want a divorce, they acted on it. There wouldn't be any married couples left! Imagine if every athlete, the very first time it started to get hard, at the very first thought of doubt, immediately sat down and quit. There would be no professional athletes!!
Now think. If we can push our limits mentally and physically in these areas, fighting doubt and insisting that we will continue no matter how hard it gets, or how badly we want to quit, how much more should we be able to persevere in our walk with God, no matter how hard or how badly we want to quit, since it is the most important part of our entire lives?!
1 Timothy 4:8 says:
"For physical training is of some value, but Godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come."
God deserves even more dedication and perseverance on our part than our marriages and sports, so let us push ourselves and strive to please Him no matter how badly we want to quit, no matter how hard it gets.
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