The next month is going to be unbelievably difficult. I feel like it's going to take every ounce of God-given energy to launch this second location. But I was encouraged by Oswald Chambers yesterday. He reminded me that "all noble tasks are difficult."
No one finds fulfillment in looking back on an experience and saying, "That was easy." We find fulfillment in looking back on experiences that were beyond our ability and yet somehow God came through in a way that only God can come through. The greatest feeling in the world is when you are totally exhausted and exhillirated at the same time!
Sometimes the greatest act of worship is just keeping on keeping on. We undervalue the spirituality of good old-fashioned hard work! We're going to give this launch everything we've got because God deserves nothing less than our best effort.
I've always been inspired by Henry V's words at Agincourt. His army was outnumbered 5:1. They were tired and many were wounded. But Henry rallies the troops with these words. He totally reframed an impossible situation.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother...and gentlemen in England, now a bedShall think themselves accursed they were not here; And hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speaksThat fought with us.
This launch is a fight. We're in the middle rounds. And we're going to stay on our feet till the final round because failure is not an option. Too many eternal destinies are at stake!
"I am being poured out like a drink offering...I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."
II Timothy 4:6