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Gripped for a Lifetime

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• 2 Timothy 4:7

  • Psalm 103:4-8

    Who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The LORD works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed. He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel: The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

One of the darkest places in my Christian experience is the grief I feel over Christians who quit—those who used to be in the race and stretching for the tape with their whole hearts. What happened and why did they pack it in? I've heard it said that "the crisis of life reveals something that has been happening for a long time." In the case of AWOL Christians, I believe that is true. We tend to focus on the shock of the tire blowing out, but in reality there were a lot of maintenance issues that preceded the flashing lights and flares by the side of the highway. Somewhere, much earlier on, they lost their longing for God.

I must confess the fear of following in their footsteps sometimes haunts me. It should you, too. We don't want to crawl across the finish line a defeated, derailed Christian or worse—give up the race before life is over do we?

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