The Triumphant Trudge
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“They shall walk, and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:31)
Deep in the heart of every person is a passionate desire to know that he or she is fulfilling the purpose for which they have been placed here on this earth. Have you found it? Found that one thing that is worthy of your one life?
Dwight D. Eisenhower said, “We succeed in life as in war, only as we are able to identify a single, over-riding objective, and then bend all other considerations to that one thing.”
What one thing overrides all other considerations in your life? What noble purpose has captured your spirit? What deep resolve beats in your heart? What great decision has won your full allegiance in life?
Assuming that you have indeed found it, let me now ask — how’s it going? If you’ve been at it for any appreciable length of time then you know by now that the journey is no cake walk. It is not a stroll through the park on a blissful Sunday afternoon. No. The path has many turns – up turns and down turns, ditches on both sides, potholes aplenty, and mounds of debris inconveniently strewn all about.
There are setbacks that stall you, and obstacles that intimidate you. There are bystanders that deride you, backsliders that dismay you, and back-stabbers that dishearten you. There are days when you walk with a company of passionate pilgrims who buoy your spirit with renewed aspiration, and then there are the days when you walk the lonesome valley all by yourself. Alone.
You, my friend, are on the Triumphant Trudge! To trudge, according to Webster, is “to walk steadily, and sometimes laboriously; but ever onward.” Isaiah’s poetry says it best, “They shall walk, and not faint.” That is, they shall not tire though the way at times be wearisome.
This will always be the case in every soul who follows Christ up Calvary’s mountain. Despite the trudge of each deliberate step, an unmistakable tone of triumph attends their every move – for each move is always onward, and ever upward. And the Lord who has gone victorious before us will welcome us with open arms on the day we cross over the finish line.
WOW! I am about to embark on a journey of renewal and self-reliance and these words are so ever true! God Bless the speaker and the Almighty for supplying the words….
Today’s post was truly a blessing. June 29th, 2002, will always be a special day for me and my wife. We were baptized and got engaged that day. Those were definitely extraordinary times. We experienced extremes of darkness and light. We couldn’t understand why we were going through such difficulties but, looking back, we got to know the Lord in ways that we had never known before and He was preparing us for something. He has often taken us to that scripture in Isaiah 40, reminding us to hope and trust in Him and He will lift us up. My email address has been isaforty@yahoo.com since 2004 in the middle of our difficult times. We got to know Him as the great deliverer and the One who always has an answer for us when we look to Him and wait.
We prayed for a child for about 4 and a half years, and despite what doctors were saying we held on. One day at work my email address struck me differently than it ever had before. I started thinking about the name Isaiah. Later at a baseball game my wife spoke out loud what I had been thinking. She said that Isaiah would be a good name for a son. I then began to believe that the Lord was speaking to me and I held on to the hope that one day we would have a son. A week before February 12, 2009, I had a dream where my best friend and my grandfather came to my house. I wasn’t sure if it was a dream or not except that the two had died in the previous year and a half. In my dream I started calling out to my wife that there was an angel. I then looked over at my friend and standing next to him was a man and a woman and the woman was pregnant. I woke up and told my wife about the dream and that I thought she was with child. A week later, on my 40th birthday, I found out that my wife was pregnant with little Isaiah!
Your post prompted me to share our story with you since you used this scripture on a day that has great importance and significance to us.
Thank you and Praise God!
@Lonnie Guerrero
Praise the LORD! I am touched by your life-story. GOD bless you and your family.