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Accept the Challenge

 

My daughter arranges walking challenges every second month for any of her friends who wish to give it a go. She encouraged me to join the September challenge to try and walk two hundred kilometres over the month. I find that around three or so kilometres a day is about all I can manage—it’s actually about all I can fit in too! So I have been tramping the streets and parks daily.

I am feeling rather good about myself although that distance might not seem a lot. After not quite three weeks I am coming fourth out of the ten people who accepted the challenge, all who are considerably younger than me. First place so far had completed ninety four plus km, second place close behind. I have completed sixty three and am very happy with that.

It occurs to me it would be very easy to put my daily walk off. My life is chaotic and busy currently and it takes around forty minutes out of my day. But I have committed to this and am determined to persevere.

The Christian walk is like that. Paul says ‘Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith’ (Hebrews 12:1-2) and ‘I have finished the race, I have kept the faith’ (2 Timothy 4:7). So once you have accepted the challenge of walking with Jesus, commit to it and persevere. Finish the race because if we endure to the end we will be saved (Matthew 24:13). Keep walking, endure and receive the crown of life. God bless you as you walk your faith out every single day.

Oh, the kitchen is being installed!

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