Get ready for a long journey

Last Wednesday night, May 11, I spoke words of encouragement to our church "To never give up." We must not give up no matter how tough it is or what we are experiencing. We should expect things to be tough; thus be prepared and ready for a long, hard journey.

Ron Walters in Preaching magazine (January, February 2011) shared these examples of how long journeys appear to be a part of life's DNA; God's creation points to it:

* The grey whale navigates 10,000 miles up and down the west coast each year at a speed comparable to a child on a bicycle...because it has to.

* Every year, the Arctic tern is required to relocate 22,000 miles away, roughly the circumference of the earth.

* Desert locusts have been known to cross oceans for a preprogrammed raid.

* The ever-so-slow leatherback turtle must travel 3,000 miles annually for its favorite meal: jellyfish a la carte.

* The monarch butterfly, which can't even fly a straight line and is forever losing momentum to the gentlest breeze, is compelled to migrate 3,000 miles - a trek that takes five generations to complete.

So, no matter the length of the journey, let us "not grow weary in well doing." Don't give up!!!