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When I was much younger, I never understood the value of retirement parties. I did not understand the importance or the value of giving someone gifts simply because they had been on the job for thirty or forty years. If they had made some great lasting achievement then I could understand a celebration, but not just for being on the job for a number of years.
As I have gotten older, I realized ninety percent of doing a good job is just showing up everyday with a desire to serve. An employee who is there every day is a blessing to his boss. A father who comes home every night is a blessing to his children. A spouse who helps around the house is a blessing to their spouse. A Church leader who is at church every Sunday is a blessing to the church. Showing up and continuing to show up with a desire to serve is the key.
Paul said it this way, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” Paul was saying that he kept the faith and kept showing up to preach the word through shipwrecks, imprisonment, pain, heartache, despair and torture.
In Matthew it says, “But he that endures unto the end, the same shall be saved.” Truly it is not how you start the race but whether you are willing to endure the end. The Olympic events don’t give gold medals for the one who starts fast but never finishes. You have to finish to obtain the gold medal. It is God who promises a “Crown of Righteousness” to one who keeps the faith and endures to the end.
We need to endure but we need God’s grace to do it. Rely on God’s grace for strength and don’t give up, don’t give up, don’t ever give up!