Tempo Run

Today we ran a four mile tempo run.  It was a good hard run and a great lesson for one of my runners.  The kid has all the gifting and ability to run good, unfortunately he is weak mentally.  When things get tough he quits.  When the run starts to hurt he backs off.  How often do we do this in life?  Things get hard in life and we back off to preserve ourselves.  In the end we end up forfeiting our gifts and abilities because it got tough.  This is challenging because there are so many areas in life and we have to keep fighting.  We must not resort to the easy way out.  We must fight until we get to heaven, then we will have the ability to rest.