A woman rushed up to famed violinist Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) after a concert and cried: “I’d give my life to play as beautifully as you do.” Kreisler replied, “I did.”
If you plant a Chinese bamboo seed, it will sit in the ground for five years and appear to not be making any changes. Then, over a six-week period, it will grow 90 feet.
There is a giant Himalayan lily which spends most of its life looking like nothing at all but then after 5-7 years it grows to 9-10 feet tall and produces the most amazing delicately shaped flowers.
However, when it comes to human achievement and maybe even our own process of maturing, we are the most impatient. Discouragement is never far away.
Writing to a community of believers who have seen people return to Judaism the instruction is to keep going.
“Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. “Make level paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed” (Hebrews 12 v 12-13).
You cannot afford to be knocked off course which is the understanding of becoming disabled. Being healed is to walk in wholeness of purpose.
Don’t be discouraged. Shake it off. Walk this journey well. Many have become side-tracked, wandering and drifting and they actually accomplish very little. But that doesn’t need to be you. No matter where you have landed in life, you may have lost it all, you can dust yourself down, make some good decisions, fix your eyes again and looking straight ahead move forward.
Missions Paul 