Me: He took off running!
Prodigal: If he were any faster he’d catch up to yesterday.
Me: If we continue eventually we will catch up with him.
This is from the book With Christ in the Garden by Lynn James Radcliffe
In the early days of aviation a pilot was flying over the Andes. Something went wrong. The plane was forced down in a blizzard. He managed to land on a well-nigh inaccessible glacier high on the forbidding slopes. Fortunately he was not seriously injured. He stayed in the shelter of the plane until the blizzard blew itself out. Then, taking such scanty provisions as he had, he tried to climb down and reach civilization. At the critical point, benumbed by cold and weakened by hunger, he sank down in despair in the shelter of a great rock. Then he thought of his wife and children and how, in this remote place, even his body would never be found. He staggered to his feet. Then slowly, but with dogged determination, he took the first step, and then the next, and kept on walking for two days until a rescue party came upon him. Later, in looking back, he said, “What saves a man is to take the next step, and then another, and then another.”
This is the high wisdom of following our Master. We shall not make spiritual progress in one giant stride; it comes a day at a time, the next step, “a little farther.”
2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
