Walking On: Faithfulness for the Long 🛣️
Primary Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-3; Psalm 37:23-24 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.” “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.” Recovery after major surgery, and especially adjustment to permanent disability, is rarely a short chapter. It becomes a long road. The initial crisis passes, the visitors thin out, and the believer is left with the steady, unspectacular ...