I'm writing this whilst I am actually feeling pretty low. I'm full of cold, and am therefore taking cough and cold remedies on a regular basis - well, as best I can so that it doesn't interact adversely from the other medications that I am on. I'm finding it a bit of a struggle to keep on going, at a time of the year when the workload is just starting to ramp up for me. And yet, I can't give in and rest up. And, I've got an overnight session at the Cold Weather Shelter tonight to look forward to. Oh, the joys!
In fact, I gave in to the cold on Thursday night, I simply couldn't fight it any more. I retreated into bed for the rest of the evening, weak as a kitten and racked with pain. And twelve hours later I woke and struggled to my feet on Friday morning for yet another round. As Captain America might say "I can do this all day..."
And yet - I still believe whole-heartedly that this is only a passing time of struggle. If I don't weaken, and don't give in, I can win through. I can make a difference. I truly believe we are 'more than conquerors' here (see below). Things will change, there will be a miracle just around the corner... Just keep on the right lines, keep faithful, keep believing...
So I keep going. I pick myself up, and struggle on for the extra mile. Pushing the boundaries as far as I can stretch them.
Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: old Japanese proverb
Romans 8:31-39 (NIV)
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I keep going. I look for the miracle just around the corner. Maybe tomorrow...
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