“And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing”~ Jdg. 8:4.
They may be slow, but plodders get the job done! They finish what they started out to achieve. The hare may pass them by on the road they travel, but in the end the tortoise crosses the finish-line while the hare is taking his nap by the wayside. “The race is not to the swift.”
Plodders keep on keeping on. They just keep putting one foot in front of the other until they cross the finish-line. They only have one goal before them — to finish. That is, their goal is God!
You know, like someone you know did. “…let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him…~Heb. 12:1-3
You can’t distract or deter such. As my son Andrew often says, “We’re in it for the long haul." We are not sprinters, but long-distance runners. Like the turtle in our story, it’s not how you started, it is how you finish that counts with God.
The missionary William Carey was not an educated man, yet he devoted himself to learning Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. In spite of his limitations he said of himself, “I can plod! And so can each of us, my friend.
Plodders come, as you might say, “In many shapes, sizes, and colors”; but no matter each’s handicap, they all have one characteristic that distinguishes them, they don’t know what the word “quit'“ means!
by an Aged Saint