One thing that Cort taught me very early on in our marriage was we would praise God in the good times, and we would praise God in the bad times. I will never forget that night my man looked at me, and we knew our world as we knew it was crashing down all around us, and there was no way we could possibly put it back together on our own. Cort put that worship on and we got or Praise On! Sometimes, in our lives we see it get really bad before it gets great!
If you have never seen Saving the Giants I would encourage you to find time to snuggle up and watch it. Such a powerful movie about having GRIT and never giving up! I would rank it in my top 5 favorite movies.
Picture yourself as that kid in whatever struggle you are facing.
When the blindfolded Brock thought he could only make it to the 20th doing the death crawl, but the coach looked at him and said Naw, you can make it to the 50th, and one more thing I want you to do it blindfolded so you don't give up on me when you think you got more in you. Brock started the crawl and immediately starts asking his coach where am I? It hurts! Coach, am I at the 20th yet?
Coach would yell back! YOU KEEP DRIVING. GIVE ME YOUR BEST! You keep going don't quit on me! Leave it all on the field you keep driving! Don't you quit. I want everything you got! The kid is yelling it hurts, its heavy, I am about out of strength, and that Coach yells! I know it hurts, you negotiate with your body and you keep going you don't quit! Don't stop! The kid is yelling it hurts, my body, I am tired! Yet the coach is yelling DON'T YOU QUIT ON ME! YOU have ten more steps. YOU can do it! YOU CAN YOU CAN!
Brock who couldn't see the end-zone and looks up and says to the coach... Surely,I made it to the 50, I have nothing left in me. The coach says... Look up BROCK you are in the end zone.
In marriage, parenting, and in life we all have to be willing to push through, when we feel weak and tired. Sure we would rather just give up. However, you bet your bottom dollar God is up in heaven just like that Coach and yelling! Don't you give up! You are almost there. I know you feel pain! But you PUSH THROUGH!!!!! Because you are one day closer to your end zone!
If we want to see our miracles. If we want to see those promises. We have to be willing to dig daily through prayer. We can't walk around defeated. We got to give our ALL because now is the time to stand up and grab a hold of this thing that has got you feeling defeated. I have no doubt we will all give God our best! You are playing on the winning team, and we will win at this thing called Life! If we want the victories we have to face those giants! Push through today! Push through tomorrow! Don't back down! PUSH Through the mind games, the doubts!
While God might be using this very situation to teach us to dig and push through. He has a bigger purpose for each of us! This is just the beginning!
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