Topics:<\/b> Adversity; Endurance; Perseverance; Trials<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Romans 5:3\u20134; James 1:2\u20134; 1 Peter 1:6\u20137<\/p>\n
I had put on weight and was out of shape, so a year ago I began working on my sagging waistline. Day after day, I worked hard on cardiovascular exercise and weight training, seeming to get nowhere. Straining. Sweating. Sucking wind. Questioning my sanity.<\/p>\n
Finally, after several months, a quantum leap occurred. Weight began to drop off. Muscle began to get toned. And endurance increased. Medical friends tell me that during the constancy of working out, regardless of how I felt, a whole new freeway system of small blood vessels and capillaries was forming within my body. Then came the day when they decided it was time for a \u201cgrand opening.\u201d Suddenly, more blood came flooding into the muscle tissue, and the resulting benefits seemed to be exponential.<\/p>\n
Likewise, when we\u2019re walking through the depths of trials, God is building up a secondary support system of endurance so that we might be even more prepared for the next time adversity comes our way.<\/p>\n
\u2014Bob Reccord, Forged by Fire<\/i> (Broadman & Holman, 2000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Topics: Adversity; Endurance; Perseverance; Trials References: Romans 5:3\u20134; James 1:2\u20134; 1 Peter 1:6\u20137 I had put on weight and was out of shape, so a year ago I began working on my sagging waistline. Day after day, I worked hard on cardiovascular exercise and weight training, seeming to get nowhere. Straining. Sweating. Sucking wind. Questioning … Continue reading “QUANTUM
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