Friday's Challenge on Posted by Rebekah

Every Friday @ 12:30pm (CST), you can hear a weekly challenge from me on Faith Music Radio.  My podcast is called Posted by Rebekah. You can listen online HERE or download the free app for your smartphone.  I would love for you to join us, listen and take the challenge!

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Here is today's podcast in blog post form. :)

Every May, we have two swallows that show up at our door.  Literally, right above our front door.  It never fails.  They have been as predictable as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west.  Every year, they try to build a nest out of bits of mud they attach to the side of our house.  Every day, I hose off the bits of mud and they try again. Finally, after several weeks, they move on.  Where to I don’t know.  But they will be back.

They sure have a lot of diligence.  It doesn’t matter if their hard work gets knocked down, they will try again.  Persistence.

We need a little more persistence in our lives, don’t we?  What have you started doing, you went off track and need to get back to?  There is not much in life that is just impossible to get back doing.

Being faithful can prove to be difficult sometimes.  Remember the story of the servant in Matthew?  “His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.”  God doesn’t make us to be faithful over so many things that we just can’t do it.  The servant was faithful over a few things.

I admit – sometimes, I feel as if I have so many things on my plate of life, that is it really possible to be faithful in all?

Here are a few thoughts to continue to be faithful:

1.     Don’t take on more than you should.  Set your boundaries.  Realize your limitations.  Fix your priorities.  Do what you can and do it well.

2.     Don’t look to others and compare.  Compare yourself to Christ.  He is the ultimate faithful one!  Let Him be your motivation and inspiration to be faithful.

3.     Realize there are days and yes, even seasons of life, where you have to be as persistent as those swallows.  You will work hard and put in your all and someone is going to come along and knock it down.  You will do it again and your work will be knocked down again.  Being faithful is not easy – but it sure brings a lot of joy!!

I want to be faithful, don’t you?  So today’s challenge is:  When you feel like throwing in the towel…stay faithful!  Be faithful to your Savior, your marriage, your ministry – it will bring joy in the end!

Will you take the challenge?