No one said it would be easy! No one was

No one said it would be easy!

No one was listening.
They didn’t change their lifestyle one bit.
He was being plotted against.
Even people from his home town, wanted him dead.
On the verge of giving up, he appealed to God to do something.

JEREMIAH 12

Surely God makes things easier.
That’s the gospel isn’t it?

“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?”, v5.
This is God’s answer followed by some worse news:
Your own family are against you.

We need to find a way through the thickets and be able to compete with horses. That’s the point. This Christian missionary life is tough. God wants us to find a way to overcome, to keep going.
The way is stamina.
“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” Churchill