I can't imagine how far away this basket seems to Asher. Every time he looks at it, before he aims his shot...I just wonder what goes through his mind.
It's a long distance from his growing hand to that 10 foot basket.
But he amazes me.
He just keeps shooting.
After a few missed shots, there are sometimes moments of defeat....where he throws himself to the ground and rolls around declaring "I will NEVER make the basket."
But I know the TRUTH.
One day it will go through the hoop. He will score those two points. The crowd will cheer or perhaps no one will see....and all his efforts, all his labor....will not have been done in vain.
And so it is for us.
May we continue to labor within His grace, within His gift of salvation....
Knowing that as we aim higher, straighter, closer....even when we feel like throwing ourselves to the ground and declaring that there is no possible way to move forward....that we will move forward and when we do...
His Kingdom will draw nearer to us.
"Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable."
-1 Corinthians 9:25
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