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How to Finish Strong When Your Faith Has Grown Cold

How to Finish Strong When Your Faith Has Grown Cold

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 There's a version of the Christian life that starts with real fire and gradually cools into something you can barely feel anymore. In this episode, discover what finishing strong actually looks like when the urgency is gone and the pace has slowed.Carol Wright was 69 years old when she decided to run a half marathon. She'd never been a runner. But she started training, and she finished. Then she kept going. By 2014 she'd completed her first full marathon. In 2022 and 2023 she failed to qualify for the Boston Marathon. Most people her age would have called it a good run and moved on.Carol went back to training.In April 2024, she crossed the finish line at the Boston Marathon at age 82. She won her age division. She was the oldest finisher in the entire race that year. When someone asked what she'd tell others who feel like giving up, she said: don't stop. She had no dramatic ending in mind. She just kept showing up for the next training run.That's the image this episode builds around. Because finishing strong in the Christian life looks a lot more like Carol's story than most of us expect.There's a version of faith that starts with real fire and gradually cools into something you can barely feel anymore. You still show up. You go through the motions. But somewhere along the way the urgency left, and you can't quite pinpoint when. That's not a rare experience. It's one of the most common ones I hear about as a pastor.Near the end of his life, writing from a prison cell in Rome, Paul told Timothy something worth sitting with. He said he'd fought the good fight, finished the race, and remained faithful. He was about to be executed. He'd been shipwrecked, beaten, imprisoned, and abandoned by people he loved. And what he said was: I finished.He didn't say he won every battle or that he always felt the fire. He said he stayed in it. That kind of ending doesn't happen by accident. It happens because someone kept choosing to take the next step, on the days it cost them and the days it didn't.Hebrews 12:1 calls it running with endurance. Endurance is a decision. And the good news is that you don't have to manufacture feelings you don't have. You just have to take the next step.BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:Why a faith that feels flat can still be a faith that finishes, and what Paul's words from prison reveal about what finishing well actually looks likeWhat endurance looks like on the days when passion isn't availableOne specific step you can take this week to close the distance between where you are and where you want to beFinishing strong doesn't always look like passion. Sometimes it just looks like the next step.Share This Episode:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/221Need Prayer? Leave me a voicemail:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemailWant to keep these devotions coming? Please consider supporting this podcast.https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/Rate and Reviewhttps://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/Connect with BartFacebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylivesWebsite: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.comFeeling spiritually drained? Start here. Download your free copy of my eBook Making Time for Jesus here.Mentioned in this episode:Join Our Private Facebook CommunityIf you're looking for a place to connect with other Daily Devotions listeners and pray for each other, I'd love for you to join our private Facebook community group. Come find us at https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/group
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