Week 10 Don't Give Up

Week 10
November 9-15, 2009

This must be about His glory  Ephesians 3:20,21  Hebrews 13:21
     *God is glorified when others are helped in His name
          +God's glory is manifest when people are loved   I John 3:18,19
     *God is glorified in the process, not in the results   2 Thessalonians 1:11,12
          +Don't forget to go back to the basics  I Corinthians 2:1,2
     *Man's humility leads to God's glory  I Peter 5:6
     *God is glorified when we don't give up   Galatians 6:9

Galatians 6:9 "..and let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart."

I have now been preparing for 10 weeks and I still won't know for another 6 weeks whether I will even receive an invitation.  The last few weeks have been a little difficult - the end seems far away and the road seems hard.  At times like this it is hard to not lose heart, to not want to give up, or to just get busy doing other stuff.  It is at times like this when we get a real gut check on whether we are in this for our own glory or if we are really in it for God to be glorified.

For the last 4 years I have been trying to get an indoor arena built here at Sky so that we could have an all-weather location to have our camps.  For the majority of that time, there has been no visible evidence that anything was being accomplished.  The dirt work started in June and they started work on the foundation in September, but until this Monday there was nothing visible above the ground.  During that time there were numerous times when I almost lost heart.  But now, just a few days later, they have all of the columns up and they have already put 4 beams up with purling.  God WILL be glorified - so don't lose heart.

By the Numbers

• Monday
       *steer wrestled horseback and on the ground
            +back to basics
  
• Tuesday
       *steer wrestled horseback and on the ground
            +on the balls of my feet and strong
  
• Wednesday
       *steer wrestled horseback and on the ground
            +good clean runs
       *roped tripping steers breakaway
            +catching
                 -this didn't go well
  
• Friday
       *roped calves horseback
            +roping the neck sharp