Everybody is able to get something started, even a child can start school, but can he finish. A plane can start to fly but can he land safely. A couple can get married, but can they stay married! So it’s not the starting something that’s the hard part, it’s to keep it going!
The scripture says “The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong” ( Ecc 9:11 KJV) For time and chance happeneth to them all.
Jesus said (Matthew 10:22 KJV) ” But he that endureth to the end shall be saved”
You can start to travel on a trip but can you reach your destination without looking back? Israel couldn’t possess the promise land because they kept remembering the past in Egypt.
Even a dog when he vomits does alright until he goes back and puts what made him sick in the first place back in himself because it look good!
So when we come out of mess and the things of this world, let us not go back to what had us in bondage, but keep pressing forward to obtain the prize.
The Apostle Paul said, ( Philippians 3:13-14 KJV)
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
So it’s all eyes on the prize mentality that we need. Anything that is given must be taken before it can be possessed! God had gave Israel the promise land but they wouldn’t take it by force, so they couldn’t possess it.
So if I hand you a gift with my hand and you don’t take it with your hand, you still can’t possess it! I give you this basic principle that the Lord has given me, Now will you take it and possess it and make it your own regardless of the opposition,or the resistance that will try to stop you ?