Stamina for Difficult Days

Another layer to suffering is stamina. If you’ve ever jogged before, but didn’t train, you know exactly the feeling I’m referring to. Gradually both your legs become noodle, throat feels like sand paper, and lungs feel like a flat tire. Likewise, life is the ability to place one step after the other without crashing to the floor. But achieving this requires incredible stamina.

Here’s another way this can be explained. Let’s say you are shopping in Florida for your first home, and the real estate agent says to you, all the houses you see today are hurricane proof, so if a hurricane lands, the wind, rain, and flood will change route, skip your house, and smash into your neighbor’s, instead. Would you believe them? Obviously you wouldn’t. The concept of a hurricane deterrent doesn’t exist.

Instead, what matters most is the build. If a house is built poorly, the stamina to endure a storm will show. But if the house is built skillfully, the opposite is just as true. And so, life isn’t about storms or long races, in as much as, it is about learning what stamina looks like. When the mind is built with intent, your ability to endure under the most pressing conditions, increases! However, achieving this starts by agreeing that every storm has purpose, and that every race is specific.

Ultimately, God is interested in the quality of your stamina, and He will continue to train you until there isn’t a storm or a race you can’t out perform!